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	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, May 17, 2020, this is your award-winning Game on Asian Media Assassination, episode 1243.
	This is no agenda.
	We're on May Mass.
	We're broadcasting live from May 14th, 17th, 73, and the 17th of Texas, Camden, the Dreamstead Stadium, William, and the A&M.
	And from northern Silicon Valley.
	I believe Adams turned into a Democrat.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackbot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Yeah, I figured I'd try and see how it works with a mask, seeing as that is what we're going to be coerced into no matter what we want.
	Well, I've read these orders, and none of them say you have to be wearing a mask all the time.
	Correct.
	You do not.
	So why are people wearing the mask all the time?
	They're wearing them in their car.
	They're wearing them at home.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I have done some investigative work on this.
	And unfortunately, this is a result of the, I would say, the society that we've created, certainly younger people.
	And it goes like this.
	You have to wear a mask to keep me safe.
	Okay?
	You have to wear the mask to keep me safe.
	So if you're not wearing a mask, but I'm wearing a mask, I'm keeping you safe, but you're a douchebag.
	And that's the bottom line.
	You're not going to get away from it.
	People are mad.
	They're angry.
	And I think that if we want to just open up, I have a suggestion, It's completely optional, so wherever you go, a store doesn't have to force you to wear masks, but they can, and if they do, then you will respect that.
	Any other place where you want me to wear a mask so that you feel safe is good.
	I'll wear the mask, and to make sure I feel safe and I'm protected from you, I'm going to open carry my firearm.
	And I'm going to do this in Texas.
	So that you can see I'm not a Democrat.
	Democrats have guns.
	Open carry?
	No, I don't think so.
	In Austin?
	Double no.
	Not at all.
	Well, a couple of things here.
	I question your premise.
	And by that I mean, I'm not absolutely sure that all these douchebags wearing a mask actually think that they're wearing the mask to protect You from them?
	No, it's all virtue signaling, but that's the reasoning that's given.
	That's the rationale.
	It's not even really true.
	Then why is somebody wearing the mask in their car?
	Well, that's okay.
	If they want to feel that that's their business, I don't care.
	If they want to look like idiots, but I'd like to get away from this...
	We're never going to open up fully...
	Until we agree on some social things.
	And if it's going to be masks, oh my God, so be it.
	Go ahead.
	Force everybody to wear a mask.
	We need to do something, and I'm willing to compromise.
	But again, I'm going to open carry, which is legal as long as you have your concealed carry in Texas.
	You can open carry, and I intend to do that.
	In my car, too, and on the street.
	I don't think there's any other way for us to go.
	So do you have a holster yet?
	Oh, I have several holsters.
	In Italy, they're opening up on Tuesday, and they will have social distancing.
	I've got a little report from Willow.
	So they'll have all that set.
	But masks shall be worn until there's a cure or a vaccine.
	So I'm seeing what's going on.
	We're not going to get away from this.
	It's going to be an endless fight.
	We're a whole bunch of idiots, and we just have to become Japan.
	We're already on our way financially into the Japanese debt trap, so we might as well just go the full nine yards.
	I don't see it.
	It's not worth fighting.
	Well, we did get a note from our Duke and Duchess, or the Duke anyway.
	I don't know if you have it.
	Do you want to read it?
	Well, I'd like to read it during the donation segment, but I have some other...
	It's kind of...
	I think I might want to read it now, because it's really exactly what you're talking about.
	Alright, alright, alright.
	Well, okay.
	I have a report from China as well.
	This is from Sir Mark and Dame Astrid, the Duke and Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea.
	And we will read most of this during the donation segment.
	But masks work is the Japanese reasoning.
	And the whole country wears them for flu season every year, especially in the most crowded mass transit system in the world.
	He gives us some numbers.
	They've only had 739 deaths for a population of 126 million.
	Which is very good.
	So that's, what did he put here?
	That's like, it's like 10 times less than the United States, if you believe in numbers, of course.
	Yeah, well, there you go.
	Well, hold on, hold on, we'll get there.
	We'll get there.
	Mask usage went up with COVID, but it also meant that it was the weakest flu season in over 10 years, interestingly.
	Not the same here.
	In fact, the mortality rate in Japan for March was also down.
	On top of this, if you feel you have symptoms, and this I think is kind of cool what Japan is doing, you're asked to go to one of the many hotels that have been commandeered for isolation hubs.
	So you don't go to the hospital and infect everybody.
	You don't go home and infect everybody.
	You go to one of the designated hotels.
	And the government has options in over 120,000 hotel rooms across the nation.
	That, I think, is a pretty good idea.
	That if you...
	Yes, but think about if you're a traveler.
	Is this room previously occupied by a guy?
	Nobody's traveling.
	But yeah, if you want to go to the obvious hurdles, but maybe just a quick update from Wuhan.
	One of our producers is back.
	And I'll read his note, or hers, anonymous.
	We're back in Wuhan, Friday Wuhan.
	Wuhan said they were going to test 11 million people in 10 days.
	Yeah.
	And I looked at the math and said, I don't know how that's going to work, but we have a little more data.
	Our producer says, back in Wuhan, Friday Wuhan tested just over 113,000 people.
	Our hotel slash apartment called us, and we'll schedule our test this coming week.
	My clients are testing the workers at work, and the Chinese government is setting up testing stations in local neighborhoods.
	They will test everyone in 10 days.
	It's not really even a blip on most people's day.
	One client has a parking lot that is full of tables and trailers that has two tests, blood and throat swabs, takes less than 10 minutes to stand in line and go through the process.
	Yeah, that is 11 million people times 10 minutes.
	I really want to see how they're going to complete this.
	And so far, only 113,000 done.
	I had to do this when...
	That's bullcrap.
	That's how.
	I had to do this when I first arrived in Wuhan, so I couldn't start work.
	This will be my third test since coming back to China.
	Wuhan is mostly open.
	Some restaurants have dining inside, while others are takeout only.
	I can't use DD, which is their version of Uber, only taxis because they track you and you need a Chinese ID to register to be tracked by the Chinese Uber.
	Our local wet market is open, but not inside.
	They moved the market to the sidewalk and made it one-way traffic.
	Enter on one side and walk through to exit the opposite side.
	You need to have your temperature scanned before you enter any place and show the QR code.
	Having fun in Wuhan.
	When we first arrived a few weeks ago, pollution level was great.
	We had blue skies and some stars at night.
	Now it's back to gray skies and burning eyes.
	I've never seen a blue sky in China.
	Well, I think it probably did happen when it was all shut down.
	That's what he says.
	Yeah, it's quite phenomenal.
	So in order not to go through all of that tracking and everything, I suggest the mask.
	I really do.
	I mean, I hate it.
	I'm against it.
	But we have to sacrifice somewhere.
	And Republicans need to shut up and just get on board.
	Move on.
	Let's do it.
	We can always...
	Do something later on and maybe people will forget about it, but this is not the hill anyone should take a stand on, in my opinion, because we're dying.
	I was reading a fashion, a column about the fashion industry this morning, you know, and that the, nothing could take, what's her name from Vogue magazine?
	Oh my goodness.
	Anna Wintour.
	Anna Wintour, famous editor of Vogue magazine with the glasses.
	Devil Wears Prada movie made about her.
	The fashion industry is saying, well, it looks like nothing could take her down but the coronavirus.
	That could take her down.
	And the fashion industry is obliterated.
	The fashion designers are out of business or going out of business.
	Not that I'm crying about it, but there's a lot of people that work in the fashion industry.
	The longer we do this, the longer it's going to be a problem, and assholes like Fauci and all these people need to get out of the way, we'll wear some masks, make it optional for people to requirement, and let's go!
	Let's move on!
	No, no, no, we can't do that!
	Here's Austin.
	They've gone back to the color codes of a threat level of 9-11.
	Tonight, amid state demands to roll back its coronavirus restrictions, Austin-Travis County is now releasing new pandemic guidelines divided into five stages.
	The chart suggests what actions to take based on communities' risk of contracting the coronavirus.
	Stage one is where we want to be.
	The chart separates suggestions by the general public, low-risk individuals, and those at high risk, such as anyone over 65 years old.
	So if you're a high-risk individual, then the suggestion is that even in stage one, that you still avoid gatherings.
	For everyone else, social distancing and mask wearing appears at stage 2.
	Austin Public Health says we're in stage 3 right now.
	This means avoiding groups of more than 10 people and avoiding non-essential travel.
	Mayor Steve Adler says hitting stage 5 means the city is in a pretty bad place and needs to take extreme measures.
	You look at this thing, it's like a grid with colors and numbers, and it's reverse order, so stage 5 is worse, stage 1 is good.
	It's dumb.
	It's dumb.
	Pussies, man.
	Go, go, go.
	I wonder what is this preoccupation with non-essential travel?
	What does that even mean?
	What is non-essential travel?
	Everything is non-essential travel, unless you're an essential person.
	Well, if you're going to the store?
	No, I think travel means...
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't care.
	It's all bullcrap.
	They can't force us.
	That's exactly what I said.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But we can sit and bicker, or we can get going, and I'm getting a little worried here in Austin, which is different from the rest of Texas.
	The rest of Texas is doing it a little differently and moving a little faster.
	Now here we all have to be pansies.
	And meanwhile, just to get back to the numbers, because that's really the problem, there are increasingly more evidence that this death count is really, really full of crap.
	And Do you remember I said that I think Birx might have flipped and she was all kind of on Trump's side and maybe anti-establishment that she's trying to save herself from the impending doom that these people will meet when we finally figure out where all the money is coming from and going and Judicial Watch is doing all kinds of FOIA requests on the Fauci and the NIH. You don't want that.
	You don't want that.
	And I'm sure he hasn't covered everything up.
	What do you mean you don't want that?
	He doesn't want that.
	Fauci doesn't want that.
	You don't want Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch making a stink about your business, which has been, as far as I can tell, very shady for a long time.
	So, this is a CNN report.
	Jim Acosta.
	It was a very long report.
	I chopped it down because it was really billed as tensions rise and Between the administration and...
	Let me get the exact...
	Exact title here.
	Tensions rise between the White House and CDC as Birx critiques virus tracking and the death rate.
	In control of the coronavirus message coming from the White House, President Trump is giving the administration a pat on the back for the U.S. response to the pandemic.
	With the enormous weight of the pandemic hanging over the White House, sources tell CNN administration officials are questioning the accuracy of the coronavirus death toll in the U.S., And whether the number of dead is being over-counted.
	But that would fly in the face of testimony from top administration health expert Dr.
	Anthony Fauci, who said deaths are likely being under-counted, as some residents in hard-hit New York died at home and were never counted as COVID-19 fatalities.
	So in direct answer to your question, I think you are correct that the number is likely higher.
	I don't know exactly what percent is higher, but almost certainly it's higher.
	The president suggested New York's numbers were dead.
	I love how they did that.
	First they say, the numbers are bullcrap, and then they cut straight to Fauci out of context, but it's, oh no, it's higher, it's definitely higher.
	This is a good report from CNN when it comes to propaganda.
	18 fatalities.
	So in direct answer to your question, I think you are correct, that the number is likely higher.
	I don't know exactly what percent's higher, but almost certainly it's higher.
	The president suggested New York's number of dead was too high last month.
	I see this morning where New York added 3,000 deaths because they died, and they're now saying rather than it was a heart attack, they're saying it was a heart attack caused by this.
	Trump allies on Fox News have zeroed in on Fauci as an obstacle to reopening the country, blasting the doctors' cautious approach to the pandemic.
	Is this the guy you want to chart the future of the country?
	Maybe not.
	This is a very serious matter, the decisions we're making right now.
	Tony Fauci has not been elected to anything.
	Fauci, to be very blunt, is the face of this failed administrative state.
	I think we've got to question the entire premise of this.
	Dr.
	Anthony Fauci also seems to favor what the Democrats want, and that is massive restrictions with no end in sight.
	With all due respect to Dr.
	Fauci's expertise, No one elected him to anything.
	But there's one big problem for the White House.
	A CNN poll found a solid majority of Americans trust Fauci, not the president.
	So the whole point is, they're not really interested in talking about the facts of the death rate.
	Let's just go ahead and say Fox News are assholes, and Fox News is doing the same to CNN. But every day, I could play a report like this.
	When police in Cortez, Colorado found 35-year-old Sebastian Yellow in their city park on May 4th, Coroner George Devers quickly determined what killed the man.
	It wasn't COVID. It was alcohol toxicity.
	Yes, he did have COVID, but that is not what took his life.
	In fact, Yellow's alcohol level is.55, nearly double the amount that's fatal.
	So he literally drank himself to death.
	Yes, exactly.
	Devers tested Yellow for COVID-19 after his death, and the test was positive.
	The coroner said he was surprised to see the state then show COVID deaths in Montezuma County go from two to three, with Sebastian Yellow's counting as number three.
	Before the death certificate was signed, they had already listed it as a COVID death before the death certificate was even signed.
	Devers said he's been trying to get the state health department to explain how a case of fatal alcohol poisoning was classified as a COVID death.
	And they should have to be recording the same way that I do.
	They have to go off the truth and the facts and list it as such.
	It's not the first time the state health department has come under fire for reclassifying deaths as COVID fatalities.
	Last month, a CBS4 investigation found attending physicians at this centennial nursing home ruled three deaths were not related to coronavirus.
	But since the residents had tested positive for COVID-19, the state then listed them as coronavirus deaths.
	There you go.
	Every day you could have one of these reports, every single day.
	We've done one every show since it started.
	Exactly.
	Since the beginning, we've done one of these.
	Where's the other reports?
	In other words, you know, if we're undercounting, we don't have these outrageous reports constantly.
	No, we can't have that.
	There'll be none of that.
	I put in the show notes...
	It's not doable.
	I put in the show notes a report from BMJ. That's a big deal.
	What does BMJ stand for?
	Something...
	Medical Journal.
	What is it, BMJ? British Medical Journal?
	I think it's...
	Let me see.
	BMJ. I think it's BMJ.com.
	Let me see.
	What is it?
	Oh, BMJ. Yeah, BMJ.com.
	Oh, the leading...
	Yeah, there it is.
	They don't even expand the acronym, you a-holes.
	The BMJ. It's something of...
	Medical Journal.
	Okay, anyway, whatever it is, it's a real medical journal, real medical report.
	Abstract.
	This is a cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks.
	And the objective was to see if there's a difference, what is good, what is not good.
	It's all marked up.
	One of our producers actually was kind enough to do this conclusion.
	The study is the first of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks, which is what we're all using because, you know, we don't have enough disposable medical masks.
	Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks, and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.
	Woo!
	It's right there in the BMJ. So, we are not getting good information.
	This is what's frustrating.
	This is what's driving people, I think, nuts.
	I have one of our producers works in a store which is starting to open up.
	And this is, believe it or not, a store with Democrats.
	And I just listened to this note that has been written to the managers of this place.
	Managers, I've been in the store for 90 seconds and two of the first nine people I walk past first thing are not wearing their face masks while within six feet of other staff and in public spaces!
	All uppercase now.
	I am disappointed in what I thought was a team of individuals who appreciated an employer that had as much concern for them as they do themselves.
	We spent the last month in net losses as a result of our selfless act of closing the stores and paying everyone for our week so that we can do our part in trying to keep our staff and their families healthy, safe, as well as mentally and emotionally secure in very uncertain times.
	All caps still.
	That won't happen.
	We can't get our money back, but I damn sure we'll take action to make sure it was not in vain.
	V-A-N-E. Misspelling.
	We will do absolutely everything in our power to prevent sickness and the risk of having to close our doors again.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Let me be clear in writing so there's no misunderstanding.
	I won't do the voice anymore.
	Wearing a face mask by employees.
	Oh, the voice is great.
	Wearing a face mask by employees and some...
	I just spit all over my screen.
	Wearing a face mask by employees and subcontractors is a requirement while conducting company business at any time and anywhere and while at property for any reason.
	Following company protocol for preventing COVID-19 spread at a rate of 100% is a requirement.
	The grounds are simple.
	Employees terminated for being a clear and present danger to health, safety, and well-being of our team members and customers by not taking the measures required by company policy of wearing a face mask to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
	That's pretty serious.
	Where'd you run into this little screed?
	One of our producers, who I'm going to keep anonymous, works there, and this was sent to her.
	Yeah, it's really...
	That's why I'm saying, who cares?
	Let's just go for it, do it, get over it already, so we can just move on, because we'll never get out of this.
	We'll never, ever get out of this.
	By the way, the CDC data...
	Which I have the link for in the show notes.
	A couple of our producers record this data from week to week, etc.
	And this producer said, I went to update my spreadsheet, noticed that they have increased all of the 2019-2020 season numbers, even though most weeks have been listed as 100% reported before.
	Increased total deaths by literally thousands per week.
	Even though they said in their own, and we have the proof, their own documents, this is 100% counted or 100% reported, and then they updated it and they just added thousands to several weeks.
	What?
	Yeah.
	The CDC is not a good outfit.
	No, it's been corrupt for years.
	Now to go back to your statement about this not being a requirement and not being a law that we have to adhere to, you're of course absolutely right.
	Here's Dr.
	Drew who was Still, I don't know if he's on Fauci's fear squad anymore or if he's freewheeling, but here's his latest.
	And let's remind ourselves, the CDC never recommended shutdown.
	They never recommended shutdown.
	They recommended social distancing.
	And let's not confuse social distancing and shutdown.
	Those are two very different things.
	Shutting down businesses, isolating in place, those are far-reaching measures beyond mere social distancing.
	So the real question is, was that necessary?
	Might there have been a more rational, intermediate step to take?
	Close some businesses, close some schools, isolate nursing homes.
	Might that have been a more sophisticated way to do this?
	And given that in California we overshot by somewhere between a factor of 10 and 50, Evidence suggests we did a great job, and maybe we did too good a job, depending on how bad our economy has hit.
	Oh, brother.
	So now I have probably the most frightening thing of the day.
	I'll get it out of the way right away.
	Thank you.
	While we have not been forced to shut down, we've been compliant.
	Very compliant human resources doing, as we're told, social engineering in great play.
	We're being shamed into compliance.
	And the ultimate question is, when a vaccine comes around, how is that going to work?
	Now, we'll probably dive in later into this Rick Bright character who keeps coming back, who was slated to be the guy running the program.
	Now the military is going to do that.
	We already said, I think, a couple weeks ago that it was going to be Warp Speed.
	Operation Warp Speed was the get the vaccine done and out and ready for distribution by January of 2021.
	So when that comes out, will we all have to take it?
	Is it going to be optional?
	Will you take the vaccine, John?
	No, nobody in the family is taking this vaccine.
	And what if you were forced to take the vaccine?
	That's not going to happen.
	Here is a constitutional lawyer, Alan Dershowitz.
	Let's be very clear how we break down this issue.
	The city of New York, the state of New York has the power to close a park.
	Based on their view that it would be helpful in defeating the pandemic.
	Absolutely no question about that.
	The Supreme Court has case after case after case saying that public health justifies closing down parks, closing down public areas.
	The next question is, does the governor have the right to do that?
	Governors generally are not authorized to make the law.
	They're authorized to enforce the law.
	So you'd have to look to see if there were legislative authority allowing the governor to close the park.
	If there is, then it would be legitimate.
	Let me put it very clearly.
	You have no constitutional right To endanger the public and spread a disease, even if you disagree, you have no right not to be vaccinated.
	You have no right not to wear a mask.
	And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor's office and plunge a needle into your arm if the vaccination is designed to prevent the spreading disease.
	If the vaccination is only to prevent a disease that you will get, for example, if there's a disease that will kill you, You have the right to refuse that, but you have no right to refuse to be vaccinated against a contagious disease.
	Public health, the police power of the Constitution, gives the state the power to compel that.
	And there are cases in the United States that bring forth.
	Holy crap.
	I was not aware that that was constitutionally somehow possible.
	Well, I'd like to hear other interpretations.
	Dershowitz has got one opinion about a lot of stuff.
	Right, but we typically like what Dershowitz has to say.
	Just because you disagree, you can't say this is bullshit.
	Yeah, I know, but he's become a bit of a...
	I have an arm waiver recently.
	I mean, what he's saying is probably true, but I'm sure there's other ways of dealing with it.
	It's not going to happen.
	We're not going to get a shot.
	Do you remember H1N1, the swine flu?
	We're still waiting for that.
	Still waiting for the vaccine.
	On this show, we discussed, oh, there's going to be two.
	Remember, the whole rigmarole is going to have to be two shots, maybe three, and then it's going to become the one, and then it becomes part of the flu shot, and there was all these different things.
	That's what the era when people at, because I took pictures, I put it in the newsletter, where they were giving the shots out in Albany.
	They had a line.
	Oh, I remember that.
	Yes.
	Opening of Star Wars.
	The public will line up for this shot to such a degree that they're not going to force anyone to get the shot because there's going to be so many people getting the shot, they're going to probably run out of it.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	That's a good point.
	Don't line up.
	Don't be lined up a mile long.
	And as the President says...
	Do you mean a fully approved vaccine for everyone, the full public, or a partially approved vaccine with emergency use?
	No, we're looking for a full vaccine for everyone that wants to get it.
	Not everybody's going to want to get it.
	There you go.
	But we're looking at a full vaccine.
	Is that a correct statement?
	Yeah, we'll...
	What is the questioning?
	We're looking at a full vaccine.
	What is that?
	Like a half vaccine?
	Hey man, I'll take a quarter vaccine.
	In context.
	She was asking me something that's not quite fully approved.
	I understand.
	I understand.
	Looking at a full vaccine.
	Is that a correct statement?
	Yeah, we'll...
	So the answer is yes.
	We're working for a fully approved vaccine, but we'll also use the tools we have, for instance, emergency use authorization as appropriate.
	We use all of our regulatory tools to bring vaccine available for the entire American population by January.
	Okay, and then Mr.
	President, can you just clarify, why are some of you wearing a mask and why are some of you not wearing a mask?
	Oh, please.
	We've all been tested, I've been tested, we've all been tested, and we're quite a distance away and we're outdoors, so I told them, I gave them the option, they could wear it or not.
	So you can blame it on me, but I gave them the option, we could wear it or not.
	So the President is there saying kind of what I'd like, optional vaccine, optional masks, and also optional open carry.
	So...
	Rick Bright was the guy who has traditionally for many years, he's been in and out of government and back to the pharmaceutical industry multiple times, and he is the guy that was supposed to be in charge of the vaccine.
	This is the BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and this was We're unceremoniously taken away from him as he was pushed out, and now, of course, he's a whistleblower, so, oh, yeah, he has a job.
	But listen to this guy's career, and you start to understand why you really don't want him in the business of vaccines.
	In this case, certainly.
	As he started in Atlanta, Georgia, Vaccine Research Center, 98 to 2002, we worked at the CDC in Atlanta, where he studied influenza A virus and the H5N1. From 2000-2003, he went to the pharmaceutical industry, which is always great when you're in government and then you go to the private industry and then you can shepherd stuff in.
	So he went to Altea Therapeutics, which is also in Atlanta, and he was senior research for their vaccine and immunology programs.
	In 2003, he went back to the CDC, so only a year that he was in private business, and then he was still in Atlanta, but then he was focused on the avian flu, and he was there until 2006.
	Then 2006 to 2008, he went to Novavax, like the number one penny stock of vaccine bull crap on the stock market.
	During that time, he participated in World Health Organization committees on vaccine development and pandemic preparedness.
	And then in 2008, he worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	And then in 2010, he came back to the Department of Health and Human Services.
	So, the guy is way too entrenched in the pharmaceutical business.
	I don't think you want this guy running the show.
	And the fact that he's so pissed off about it and so angry that he's become a whistleblower, I think tells us...
	I'm sorry?
	Go on.
	I think that tells us that this was not the way it's supposed to go.
	This is...
	We are going to learn eventually so much about the pharmaceutical and medical industry and all the egos and all the money that takes place and it's going to blow us away because the scandal and the bull crap and the money is ten times bigger than movies.
	I love your optimism.
	This is Rick Bright testifying because of course we've got to testify.
	Today the world is confronting a public health emergency unlike any we've seen in over a century.
	We are facing a highly transmissible and deadly virus which not only claims lives but also disrupts the very foundations of our society.
	The American healthcare system is being taxed to the limit.
	Our economy is spiraling downward and our population is being paralyzed by fear, stemming from a lack of a coordinated response and a dearth of accurate, clear communication about the path forward.
	Americans yearn to get back to work, to open their businesses and to provide for their families.
	I get that.
	However, what we do must be done...
	What is he like in charge?
	He sounds like he's the premier of Canada.
	...get back to work, to open their businesses and to provide for their families.
	I get that.
	Yeah, but this is the attitude of these people.
	I am king!
	However, what we do must be done carefully and with guidance from the best scientific minds.
	Our window of opportunity is closing.
	If we fail to improve our response now, based on science, I fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged.
	Yeah, this is my favorite part, is now we're bringing it all back around to science and trust the science.
	Oh yeah, this is because the Republicans in particular don't believe in science.
	There will be likely a resurgence of COVID-19 this fall.
	It'll be greatly compounded by the challenges of seasonal influenza.
	Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest...
	Hold on a second.
	These guys, this goes on with Biden too.
	Where's the science...
	Where's the science that says it's going to recur in the fall of 2020?
	Oh no, there's no science.
	Specifically, what science?
	No.
	He's talking about science, science, science.
	No, I trust the science.
	What science specifically?
	Name something.
	What study do they know for a fact that this thing's not falling apart?
	I mean, is there any evidence whatsoever?
	This is all speculative.
	Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.
	I love could be the darkest winter in modern history.
	Have you heard of the hunger winter, a-hole?
	Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.
	First and foremost, we need to be truthful with the American people.
	Americans deserve the truth.
	The truth must be based on science.
	We have the world's greatest scientists.
	Now, the truth must be based on science is a very interesting phrase, and I think we're going to hear this a lot more.
	Because there's really only truth in one thing, and that's mathematics.
	And what they're showing us is mathematics, and there's no truth in it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Science is not always truth.
	In fact, it's kind of never truth.
	But we've been through this with global warming, and the Green New Deal, and climate change, and it's just coming back.
	And please ignore the math that we showed you that was all wrong.
	Trust in science.
	People, Americans deserve the truth.
	The truth must be based on science.
	We have the world's greatest scientists.
	Let us lead.
	Let us speak without fear of retribution.
	There you go, John.
	Let us lead.
	Let us lead.
	They want to give the power to the scientists to let them lead you.
	We must listen.
	Each of us can and must do our part now.
	On Tuesday, Dr.
	Fauci delivered a message in a voice that is clear and trustworthy as he encouraged us to act with caution as we return to our daily lives.
	We should listen to him and other scientists sharing their expertise.
	Yeah.
	It's so bad that to push the science and believe the science, truth is in science, CNN did a special Sanjay Gupta, Anderson Pooper, bringing in the one and only.
	Before you go on to that, I have to play a couple of things, because Bright's testimony was a fiasco and it was a disaster.
	And I want to play two things that preluded this little dispel which everybody clipped about, oh, we're going to have this dark winter and all the rest of it.
	Let's listen to how this thing actually began.
	This is the bright testimony confusion.
	Okay.
	Hold on.
	Here we go.
	Five minutes for an opening statement.
	You don't think it's resolved?
	Well, are we going to ask if he wants to be represented by council and then who the council is?
	Dr.
	Bright, do you wish to be represented by counsel?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	And then, could she identify herself for the record?
	And for the record, would the counsel please state your name?
	My name is Deborah Katz.
	I'm an attorney representing Dr.
	Rick Bright with the law firm of Katz, Marshall& Banks.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	I think that's all we needed to do.
	Good.
	Parliament.
	All right.
	The gentleman.
	Well, the gentleman is recognized for his five minutes.
	Well, if you've got a parliamentary.
	Parliamentary question.
	I'm glad you got this, John.
	This is very good.
	It's pressing.
	So.
	Gentleman's date is parliamentary.
	Yeah.
	Will the witness be under oath?
	Because if you have a whistleblower testimony under O&I, a witness would normally be under oath.
	And if not today, he's under oath, not under oath.
	Then if we get into whistleblower allegations, how can we be assured that the witness is telling the truth under oath if they're not under oath?
	And if they're not under oath, then how can you talk about the whistleblower complaints?
	In a fair and equitable manner.
	I thank the gentleman for his inquiry.
	All witnesses know that it is illegal to lie to Congress.
	And in our subcommittee, unlike O&I, they are the only subcommittee that...
	I mean, it's a practice.
	It's a tradition.
	But we don't swear people in.
	But witnesses know that...
	It is illegal to lie to Congress.
	USC 1003 or something, I believe.
	Thank you.
	Now, a couple of things.
	One, that's just Anna Eshoo that's heading this subcommittee.
	And she doesn't know what she's doing.
	And so the Republican guy has to tell her how to do things properly and they have to walk through a bunch of things.
	But this lying to Congress thing I didn't realize and apparently there is some U.S. code.
	So what about James Clapper?
	No, that doesn't count.
	The thing is, we're living in a world of calling out hypocrisy, and that's all anyone does all the time, and it has no benefit.
	It doesn't go anywhere.
	It hasn't gone anywhere so far.
	So let's get to part two.
	This is another...
	Now the head Republican, whose name I wrote on the back of an envelope, I got it back there, he's from Oregon.
	He's a congressman.
	He's very good, by the way, this guy.
	And I'll go get the envelope.
	But now this is the beginning of the kind of the true confusion.
	And this makes the whole thing a joke and a fiasco.
	And in fact, they brought up this lawyer.
	He wants to be represented by counsel.
	He says, yeah, I want to be represented by counsel.
	She says absolutely nothing the whole time.
	He never once asks her a question.
	So she's just up there as a joke.
	And so this part of it makes it even more of a joke.
	This is Representative Walden, I believe.
	Walden?
	Yes, Walden.
	Greg Walden from...
	He's quite good, quite good.
	Uh-huh.
	We have asked for, and this committee should hold hearings to find a path forward to reform the strategic national stockpile, to increase domestic manufacturing of critical supplies and disentangle our supply chains from China.
	We should be exploring strategies for increased testing so we can begin to safely reopen our economy.
	We need to find ways to improve access to mental health and provide relief both For our healthcare providers on the front lines treating COVID-19 cases and our healthcare workers who have been furloughed because their hospitals are closed.
	We should be conducting rigorous oversight of the trillions of dollars and myriad new policies Congress has appropriated and enacted in the last three months.
	And we should be investigating, really investigating allegations like Dr.
	Bright's that raise concern about our nation's coronavirus response.
	That does not appear to be why we're actually here today, and frankly it saddens me.
	Dr.
	Bright, your allegations are serious.
	They deserve a real investigation.
	I know the Office of Special Counts with whom you filed your complaint will do just that, and I know they take their work seriously and will hear you out, and importantly, will give those named in your complaint an opportunity to have their side heard as well.
	I must tell you that many of us on our committee were confused when we learned from a tweet this hearing was scheduled in the wake of your complaint.
	As you know, that's certainly not how we do things at the Energy and Commerce Committee.
	Not long after the notice of this being a whistleblower hearing, we were advised you were here as a government witness, not a whistleblower, but then we were told you were not representing the government but yourself.
	The hearing title suggests the hearing is about protecting scientific integrity, yet the chair invited a witness who will not be speaking to that issue.
	So it's all pretty confusing and unusual to say the least.
	Here we are in the middle of a pandemic and we aren't given time to secure our witnesses, conduct appropriate research, or require documents that could aid in our understanding of the situation you face and the country face.
	So the whole thing is a sham.
	Of course it is.
	It was set up so Brian can go up there and say, slam the president.
	And lie, and do whatever he wants.
	He didn't have to tell the truth.
	And do whatever he wants, but the joke is he didn't do a very good job of any of it, except that one clip that you played, which is pretty much what everyone played.
	Mm-hmm.
	I consider the whole thing an epic fail, to be honest about it.
	Yeah, but going back, the push now, and that's really what I wanted to prove with that clip, the push is for science is truth.
	That's the push.
	And let the scientists leave.
	We kind of heard that, but now he's...
	This guy, he's the Pied Piper, and he's supposed to say the things everyone's going to repeat, and you'll hear, well, as Dr.
	Bright said, you know, you're going to hear that...
	I don't think so.
	So we had the big Rona special on CNN with Anderson Pooper and Sanjay Gupta, and there she is, the expert when it comes to science, all things science, the ever so idealistic Gratitude Mary.
	I've seen you talk about online too is just how important it is to listen to experts and listen to science.
	And this is a time when, you know, I was not a very good science student.
	When I was in school.
	But this is a time, it seems, that the global scientific community is so critically important and we're really seeing just how important it is to follow science.
	Yes.
	Yes, exactly.
	And I hope that...
	What is she?
	Is she a PhD?
	Oh, yes.
	Listen to her message.
	She'll do 50 seconds of the same thing.
	We can see now that the scientific community are stepping up and they are...
	They're speaking up more than they've done before.
	You know, I've got to tell you, for a 16-year-old Swedish girl, the term stepping up, like the scientists are stepping up, is an odd thing for her to be using, just in my opinion.
	I don't know.
	Is that how kids talk about that?
	Oh, the Swedes?
	That's all they talk about, stepping up.
	Yes, yes, exactly.
	And I hope that...
	We can see now that the scientific community are stepping up, and they are speaking up more than they have done before, because obviously this is a crisis that requires the scientific community to speak up.
	And I hope that people really...
	It feels like science is getting...
	The role of science is changing now.
	People are starting to realize that we are actually depending on science and that we need to listen to scientists and experts.
	And I really hope that that stays and that also is for other crises such as the climate crisis and the environmental crisis, that we actually understand that Hey, you know, don't you think that the climate folk are freaked out about this whole situation?
	Because they've been talking about being put on the back burner.
	They've been taken off the stove.
	Yeah, they're back in the pantry where they belong.
	Yeah, I think so.
	That's why it's important to have Greta back on the scene so she can maintain her profile.
	People forget pretty quickly.
	Okay, we have Anderson Cooper.
	Like you said, the big three there was Anderson Cooper, who admittedly says he was a lousy student, and he didn't get flunked science, so he's an idiot.
	And so then you get Greta Thunberg, who...
	It was a kid.
	She's just a kid, let's face reality.
	And then you have the MD, a doctor.
	Yeah, but Doogie Howser was only just a kid.
	Doogie Howser was only just a kid as well, you know?
	It's like, these kids can be very smart.
	They can be geniuses.
	Remember who you're talking to, your average CNN viewer.
	They're CNN viewers, which is a small group of people, let's face it.
	It's under a million, generally speaking.
	We probably have a bigger audience.
	Probably is the dumbest audience that watches television and thinks they're keeping up.
	You have to imagine that you think you're keeping up because it's all about news, news, news, news.
	Oh no, it's opinion, opinion, opinion.
	It's all about opinion.
	The Central Intelligence Broadcast System I think really did a good job in pitting the two main people that it's all about.
	Who's going to lead us?
	That's what it's coming down to this week.
	I haven't seen the Sunday shows, but I'm sure it's part of it.
	Who is going to lead us?
	Trump?
	The President?
	Or Fauci?
	The God.
	President Trump continues to push the country to quickly bounce back and says he does not consider that happening without reopening schools, claiming the virus has had very little impact on young people.
	But you're right.
	His own top health experts disagree.
	Look, he wants to play all sides of the equation.
	President Trump pushed back against the warning Dr.
	Anthony Fauci delivered at a Senate hearing the day before.
	There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control.
	We don't know everything about this virus, and we really better be very careful, particularly when it comes to children.
	Just to interrupt.
	I'm a little tired of, we don't know very much about this virus.
	Why not?
	I mean, you've been studying this for 40 years.
	It's similar to other SARS virus.
	I don't feel very comfortable hearing, we don't know, we don't know, we don't know, but then telling me, it's going to be the worst winter in history.
	This is very contradictory.
	Very careful, particularly when it comes to children.
	I was surprised by his answer, actually, because, you know, it's just, to me, it's not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools.
	But a new CBS News poll finds that most Americans trust Dr.
	Fauci, though his unfavorable rating among conservatives has increased since April.
	The country needs guidance of the nation's best medical and scientific experts.
	These literally are matters of life and of death.
	As Democrats demand more guidance from the federal government, today the administration's former top vaccine researcher, Rick Bright, will testify before a House committee that if the response is not ramped up, 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history.
	I think CBS does a good job of wrapping up the messaging that they want.
	Trump, bad.
	Fauci, good.
	It's the exact same messaging that PBS is using.
	Oh, yes.
	They had Shields and Brooks on, and they went on and on.
	Well, let's hear it.
	Let's hear it.
	I want to hear it.
	I want to hear what you got.
	Well, we got a few things here.
	I got a lot of stuff on Biden.
	Yeah, no.
	Well, Biden will come.
	Let's finish up the Rona.
	Let's do Shields and Brooks on PBS Research Notes.
	And it reveals that Joe Biden is a very transparent person.
	The culture they describe is certainly the culture I knew when I was covering Senator Biden.
	All right, skip that one.
	Go to Shields on Reopening, Seize Battle, PBS. President, and he said it again today, we need to move ahead, whether we're ready or not, in the direction of opening up.
	Yes, he did, Judy.
	And the president proves once again...
	He's not actually strategic or tactical in his political fights that he engages in.
	He's visceral.
	He's instinctive.
	You should always, if you're going after somebody politically, go after somebody.
	We're going to have to start this over because you've got to listen to what he – she says Trump wants to go ahead and reopen the country.
	And he – this is like this messaging that you just brought up on CBS and is also being played out on PBS and elsewhere.
	It's as though the overlying talking points to messages or something else sneaks in as a given into conversations where it shouldn't.
	So she's asking him, the president wants to reopen the country, and his response is, he doesn't know how to pick his battles.
	He's not strategic.
	Wait a minute.
	He wants to reopen the country is not a battle.
	Who's a battle with who?
	Well, we know.
	It's assumed they already know what the battle is.
	It's a battle between Fauci and Trump because they want to lower Trump's numbers, put somebody else, you know, call the shots and help continue to ruin the country.
	The world, not just the country, the world.
	Yeah, the world, the world.
	Yeah, the world government will take care of that, by the way.
	Although every country has their own Fauci.
	Yes.
	Every country has their own Fauci.
	All connected.
	Own Fauci.
	Got pictures of Fauci on the background on their desk, man.
	All Fauci's disciples.
	Disciples.
	The Pope disciples.
	So you have this...
	Should we play it again, this clip, now that we have that?
	Yeah, yeah.
	You want to play it over with it in mind that what she says and what he jumps in with is discrepant.
	President, and he said it again today, we need to move ahead, whether we're ready or not, in the direction of opening up.
	Yes, he did, Judy.
	And the president proves, once again, he's not actually strategic or tactical in his political fights that he engages in.
	He's visceral.
	He's instinctive.
	You should always, if you're going after somebody politically, go after somebody who's a lot weaker than you are politically or less popular.
	I mean, Democrats won five consecutive presidential elections running against Herbert Hoover because they're the Depression and unpopular as a Republican president.
	But he picked Anthony Fauci, Dr.
	Fauci.
	David mentioned he's been there since Reagan years.
	But not only that, in a presidential debate when George...
	H.W. Bush was asked to cite a contemporary American hero.
	He cited Dr.
	Anthony Fauci.
	Woo!
	What a hero!
	Not anymore in my book.
	And now remember, in order to get back to work, it really is about nine things.
	Testing, testing, testing, tracing, tracing, tracing, isolation, isolation, isolation.
	So we've got to test you, we've got to trace you, we've got to isolate you, and I have been identifying, along with some of our No Agenda lab personnel, that the antibody tests are...
	It's increasingly difficult to put together.
	The material they're receiving from, I'm not sure where it comes from, I think some of it, if not all from China, seems to be faulty, not the same results.
	And this is what certainly the...
	A lot of people want and feel is necessary to go back to work as we have to test for the antibodies.
	And obviously, the leading group on the test for antibodies is run by, who else could it be?
	The Gates Foundation.
	It's not really run by them, but they're a major funder of this group.
	And the FDA has stepped in.
	The Food and Drug Administration halted a coronavirus testing program promoted by billionaire Bill Gates and Seattle health officials pending reviews.
	The program sought to send test kits to the home of people both healthy and sick to try to bring the country to the level of testing officials say is necessary before states can begin safely reopening.
	The program, which has already gone through thousands of tests, found dozens of cases that had previously been undiagnosed.
	The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network said on its website that the FDA has asked it to pause testing while it receives additional authorizations, but maintained its procedures are safe.
	The story is so underplayed that you can't even get a clip.
	You have to get a computer voice reading the copy.
	You know, it's funny that computer voice sounds like another one of these online commentators, Bill Still.
	Oh, really?
	I had to cut it to put pauses in to make the transition natural.
	It's so bad.
	But that's how underreported this is.
	Nobody wants to really let you know that it's failing.
	Meanwhile, without a doubt, science-based, New York has some great ideas for getting back to work.
	And New York has problems, but they do want people to at least go back and play some tennis.
	Every player, unless they're from the same household, has to bring their own tennis balls so that you don't touch other people's tennis balls with your hands.
	You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them.
	Okay, is that ISO worthy?
	You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them.
	It gets better because she recognizes what she's doing, and this is our humorous moment of the show.
	With your hands, you can kick their balls, but you can't touch them.
	I'm going to blush, sorry.
	Of course, if you're playing with someone in your household, you can touch those tennis balls.
	To avoid confusion between whose balls are whose, you can use a marker with a sharpie to mark out to put an X to customize initials.
	I give her high marks for that.
	High marks.
	I love it that everyone's cracking up.
	We just needed that moment of like, oh, okay, okay, okay, I feel so much better now.
	You're going to have to number the balls like you do with balls.
	You've got to number them.
	And the ball boys, they can't be grabbing everybody's balls.
	They can only get the balls on their side from their team.
	You can only touch your team's balls.
	It goes on forever, obviously.
	You can have a lot of fun with this.
	I have, since it's also being obfuscated, I have an update from a New York City nursing home where a good half of all of New York City patients died.
	Would you like to hear this from a dude named Ben who works in IT? Yeah, this is the...
	Yeah, so what we've been discussing and what is on our radar is the fact that the governor signed a number of orders which really put sick people back into the nursing homes without proper separation, not all of them, but really unprepared and that infected a lot of people and killed a lot of people.
	And he doesn't want to own up to it.
	I don't think he will.
	I'm not blaming him specifically.
	Shit happens in an emergency.
	This is not a good one.
	But I don't want to talk about the hypocritical nature of it.
	Obviously, we know if this was a Republican who had done it, the media would have been talking about it.
	But even Fox News isn't really talking about this.
	No one wants to know.
	So here's our report.
	Boots on the ground.
	Dude named Ben.
	That's not really his name, but dude named Ben who works in IT for a large New York City nursing home.
	A few facts about how our Governor Cuomo has handled this vulnerable population.
	From the beginning, we were told by the government and New York State Department of Health that we cannot test staff and residents as there is not enough testing supplies and hospitals are more important.
	That's mistake number one.
	The only way we could test a patient was to transfer them to the hospital.
	Then they were tested.
	The only way we could test staff is to have them go to their private doctor, get them to call the state testing hotline, and if symptomatic, get an appointment for a testing center.
	Therefore, there was a very low death rate reported by nursing homes since they couldn't test and therefore could not confirm the deaths were COVID-19 related.
	Then Cuomo ordered all nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive discharges, that's people, from the hospital.
	Most nursing homes are unprepared for this, do not have sufficient PPE or staffing, nor the ability to isolate.
	We partnered at that time with a large New York City hospital system, created a dedicated COVID-19 recovery unit, and gladly accepted positive patients once we put in place the appropriate infection control procedures and received sufficient PPE from our hospital partner.
	Then Cuomo woke up and realized many nursing homes were not equipped to handle COVID-19 positive patients.
	And the death count went up and issued another executive order forbidding nursing homes from accepting COVID-19 positive patients.
	They will surely back up hospitals and create an artificial surge.
	Then Cuomo mandated.
	This is crazy.
	That all nursing home patients and staff be tested.
	We had a team of 20 from the Department of Health here this week tested all residents and staff over four days.
	We now have to put a plan in place by May 20th how we're going to continue to test staff twice a week even though there are not enough testing supplies, lab capacity, logistical ability, nurses and doctors to swab, and cost of millions of dollars per month per facility will become a financial hardship.
	If we don't have a plan, we risk losing our license, and I really don't look forward to having my brain poked an additional two times per week going forward.
	You two are so spot on in much of your analysis.
	Thank you for all I do to spread the truth, analyze each issue, stay safe, keep your six-foot social distance, figure out how to wear a mask during haircuts.
	Thank you.
	So again, Cuomo certainly, but I think in general, doesn't care about the elderly, doesn't care about old people, cares about the hospital and the money that they can make.
	I'm just going to say that.
	And the state and getting a bailout.
	He did not care for the actual people who needed care.
	No, he's about the money.
	Yes!
	And it's disturbing.
	It's disturbing insofar as he's worshipped along with Fauci by the Democrats, especially the ones that kind of hope Biden moves aside so Cuomo could take over, even though we've already shown on this show that that's not even a possibility because Cuomo's commentary where he says America's never been a great country, which is all you have to do is just keep playing that audio forever and then he's never going to get a vote.
	It's the dumbest thing anyone could ever say.
	Yeah.
	As a politician, I mean, people can say it, but as a politician, it's crazy.
	It's so sad that we're arguing about the wrong things.
	The media, of course, has not been your friend for a long, long time, but it's just gotten so bad.
	Very bad.
	A lot of people get notes from us saying that the media...
	I mean, the media has been bad for a long time, and we've documented it for the last 10 years, and then as we go back in history, you go back to the Gulf of Tonkin and those other things that took place, and the media fell off the side.
	The media's never been any good.
	Well, and it was interesting, I was talking to the keeper about the church commission.
	I think, has it always been like, you know, this indoctrination into the media?
	I said, yeah, in 75 there was a big hearing, the Church Commission, and the CIA sat there and said, yeah, yeah, we have people on staff who send in stories to reporters in the printed press.
	And then the question came in, well, do you have anybody at Major Television News Network?
	Well, that had to be discussed in a private setting.
	And the same for anyone at the New York Times.
	Well, we think we should discuss that in a private setting.
	So yes.
	And if you think it went away, it did not.
	Why would it?
	It's a good mechanism.
	It works well for them.
	But unfortunately, a lot of people were sucked into it.
	Remember the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health that we discussed and that you had questions about?
	The Secretary's appearance?
	Have you ever seen the appearance of the health secretary from Los Angeles?
	Well, let's stick with Pennsylvania for a second.
	Yeah, go on.
	So your hunch was correct.
	We didn't know much about the secretary.
	Oh, the transsexual woman.
	The transsexual, exactly.
	Trans woman.
	Well, there was a guy who's not you.
	Who pretty much got cancelled because he too made fun of the health secretary of Pennsylvania.
	And here's a little story about it.
	Robert Portigallo is the owners of Peppers and At here in Braddock.
	Super popular restaurant in our region.
	But Portigallo is coming under fire for recent Facebook comments that he posted on his personal page.
	Comments that some say are transphobic.
	These are the Facebook posts that Robert Portigallo shared on his page.
	Now what's interesting is what you see is a picture of him with a wig on and looking like the...
	And then you see a picture of the Secretary of Health next to each other.
	Above that, which I think was funny and the actual joke, this is not a trans joke, was a picture of Wayne from Wayne's World.
	With the stupid glasses, looks exactly like the Secretary of Health.
	So I think he was saying, oh, you look like Wayne from Wayne's World.
	Yeah, separated at birth.
	Tagging his restaurant, Peppers and At.
	In one of the posts, Portigallo is wearing a wig, glasses and pearls, appearing to mimic the look of Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, Dr.
	Rachel Levine.
	Oh, what an outrage.
	Who is a transgender woman.
	Another post shows Portigallo appearing to impersonate Dr. Levine, holding a news conference around rolls of toilet paper with a caption.
	Now we know who hoarded all the toilet paper.
	While Portigallo says his intent was to be funny, members of the LGBTQ community aren't laughing.
	And you should see this video.
	This spokesperson, I'm sorry, member of the LGBT community is wearing a rainbow mask, pink flags, you know, and it's weird to hear this person, see the person talking with a mask over their face.
	She's done nothing but be a wonderful, compassionate leader in guiding the Commonwealth, in making sure they stay safe.
	Christine Bryan is with the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh, whose mission is to fight for the LGBTQ community.
	I know there's a lot of people that didn't realize that she was a member of the transgender community, and truthfully, it doesn't matter.
	Yeah, exactly.
	She's a human being just like everybody else, with an extensive resume that is so impressive.
	So impressive, but listen.
	Shut up!
	It was not an LGBT joke.
	It was about Wayne's world and it was humor.
	We can't have humor.
	No, you can't have humor.
	And by the way, a battle axe is a battle axe, whether it's a transgender battle axe, an old woman, or even an old man.
	Doesn't matter.
	But no, let's immediately take it into all...
	And by the way, it's okay to make fun of the president and his orange hair.
	Orange man bad.
	Stop!
	That's okay, but oh no, oh no, this immediately has to be taken into LGBTQ. Shut up.
	So annoying.
	Yes, the appearance bigotry needs to be consistent.
	In Texas.
	If you can mock the president for being orange or a clown or whatever you want to call him.
	Yeah, let it be.
	It's an open game.
	It's open so you can go after anybody.
	You'd think.
	You'd think.
	But no.
	Let's see.
	Yes.
	So the final things I have is what's going on locally here in Texas as there's a lot of pushback from people who want to open up.
	And what we're seeing now across the country is some of the more rigorous mayors and or more mayors than anything, but governors as well.
	They will take away your license so you can't operate.
	Doing anything to shame you or thwart you from conducting your business legally, which, you know, it's legal.
	This is not a violation of law.
	It's a violation of some kind of social standards that we're now tied into.
	So in Texas, we have the traveling economic militias.
	And this is new.
	These guys are going all over Texas, and they are protecting businesses that want to open up.
	And they stand in front with their rifles and, of course, all kinds of intimidating-looking gear.
	And you know what?
	Businesses are open.
	And that, I think, is sad that it has to go that way.
	I like it.
	I think it's great that it has to go that way.
	And, you know, I would participate in that if someone was having problems.
	I'd jump right in to stand there.
	This is why we have guns when this type of situation appears.
	Let's look at a country that just took away their guns in New Zealand and let's see what kind of powers they've given to their prime minister.
	This bill enables the police to enter a home without a warrant.
	Madam Speaker, the police have never held that power.
	At all.
	They have never held that power.
	And this bill, this bill enables police just on reasonable cause to enter into your home.
	Sweet!
	It's just like the good old King George III. They used to question the houses too.
	That's why they put it in the Bill of Rights when we told them to sod off.
	Yeah, good times over there.
	Yeah, well, New Zealand's a wreck.
	The place is a mess.
	I want to play the one- Excuse me.
	I mean, I do have the Round the World Tour, which has got some good stuff, but I have to get this out of the way before we go to the break, which is the...
	Something that doesn't get a lot of play.
	I looked into it.
	It seems to be true.
	It seems to be an accurate report.
	It's not a joke.
	It's not the B or whatever that thing is, the new onion.
	This is the Wuhan P4 lab report.
	What is it?
	The B? The B? The Babylon B. The Babylon B. The P4 lab.
	Sorry.
	What?
	Sorry.
	The P4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has come under scrutiny as a potential source of the virus.
	According to an NBC report, a hazardous event may have happened at the lab in October last year.
	Three people familiar with the matter told NBC that U.S. intelligence agencies are reviewing an unofficial report on cell phone location data.
	The report found there was no cell phone activity around the high security part of the P4 lab between October 7th and 24th last year.
	The report suggests there may have been a hazardous event there sometime between October 6th and 11th that required the lab to be closed during that time.
	The report talks about images from October 14th to 19th last year showing no outbound traffic from the lab.
	It's suspected a roadblock was set up to prevent cars and people coming and going.
	This is in contrast to satellite images from August to October 6th, which show a lot of activity.
	The next instance of activity was on October 25th.
	U.S. Senator Tom Cotton also spoke about the data in an interview with Fox News.
	Cotton said normally thousands of mobile phones are in use around this area.
	Wuhan has about the same population density as New York.
	He adds the sudden drop in cell phone usage is likely an indicator of when the virus first began spreading.
	He said we could get to the bottom of it a lot faster if the Chinese regime was more transparent.
	US intelligence officials say the evidence is not enough on its own.
	They are still investigating.
	Now where did this report come from?
	This came from a news operation called NTD, which is a Chinese operation, an NTD stands for New Tang Dynasty, and it turns out that these are the same group that comes out of the Epoch Times.
	Oh, right, right, right, right.
	Same operation, Falun Gong.
	Yeah, they hate the Chinese, obviously.
	They hate the Chinese.
	Well, it's Falun Gong, and the Falun Gong are banned in China, and it was...
	about this because the Falun Gong phenomenon is quite interesting.
	This operation only began in the 90s.
	There was a moment in history where there's all these different movement practices in China.
	And Qigong was one of them that goes back, I think, 3,000 years at least.
	And it became, for some unknown reason, a super popular, again, its popularity began in the 50s and then it got incredibly popular in the 90s.
	And it's like Tai Chi, Qi Gong, there's a bunch of these that are all interconnected.
	Gong also is like Kung, so Kung Fu, all these different movement ideologies are part of Chinese culture.
	And in the mid-90s, this...
	Qigong is extremely popular, and an offshoot called Falun Gong came up and became so popular so quickly that it garnered like 70 million followers within a couple of years.
	And by the end of the same decade, it was banned in China because it was seen as dangerous.
	And then ever since then, there's been this blood feud between these people and the Chinese Communist Party.
	Yeah.
	I'm glad you went into that, and whenever I see the Epoch Times, I bear that in mind.
	They have an agenda, but I think a lot of people don't even know this, don't even know that.
	It's Epoch Times, and what else?
	What's the other online thing?
	Well, this one here is NTD, the news service.
	There's also something else called Happy...
	Happy ending TV. There was a 300-year reign with a hole in the middle of it where the evil Empress Wu ruled that little era.
	It was the only full empress in the history of China that actually had total, complete power.
	And she was evil.
	She was a whore, apparently, who somehow got into government, which does happen.
	Now, was that before the Wu-Tang Clan?
	Just before the Wu-Tang Clan.
	Alright.
	Woo!
	A little bit of history for you, everybody.
	This stuff has its implications, and these Falun Gong guys have got some very serious...
	This is good journalism they've been producing, to be honest about it.
	I mean, I know it's slanted, too, but it's pretty well done.
	Well, all news is slanted, but you still have to pick out what you can, as long as you know what's going on.
	This story about the lab getting shut down, which has been debunked!
	Of course!
	The lab having something to do with it is not being played by anybody, and apparently NBC did have the story, but they kind of suppressed it.
	So what is your takeaway with that, then?
	The virus came from the Chinese lab, I think, just like the French guy.
	The French Nobel Prize winner in medicine who discovered the AIDS virus is the guy who I think is right, and everyone calls him a crackpot.
	Now, yes, now they do.
	He's got his Nobel Prize, he's got his chops, and yet he's a crackpot.
	This is happening everywhere.
	In the Netherlands, there's a very famous statistician and pollster, his name is Maurice de Hondt, and that translates, interestingly, to Maurice the dog.
	That is literally his name.
	And Maurice, he's probably, he's got 10 years on me.
	I've worked with him in the past, but he's very famous.
	He's the guy that whenever there's elections, he's everywhere on television.
	He shows everybody the charts, the numbers.
	He's got it all down.
	He's very good at understanding data.
	And he's been doing it since I was a child, almost, in the country, watching him.
	He has been shut out.
	He's entirely banned from all mainstream, and he's now appearing on podcasts.
	And I'm actually considering, because he speaks perfectly English, I'm considering doing an interview with him, because it's easy to get right now.
	And it's because he said, look, the way you're collecting the data is shoddy.
	You have completely incorrect data.
	The numbers are no good.
	Your models are no good.
	Goodbye, Maurice the dog.
	So it's happening everywhere.
	France has got that guy.
	Crackpot, get rid of him.
	Maurice DeJount, I think his career is over.
	I'm sure he has plenty of money, but it's odd to see the guy that I grew up watching as the authority on data and statistics and numbers to be completely shut out because he had a different opinion.
	Cancelled.
	My man is cancelled.
	You started off as a podcaster.
	You don't have this problem.
	That's right.
	Before we take a break, we do have a very important public service announcement that is something I'd like you all to listen to very carefully.
	In the morning, No Agenda producers, when writing the No Agenda show, we know you all want to refer to your significant others as smoking hot.
	When everyone uses the same term to describe their lover, it can get quite repetitive.
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	If your significant other doesn't like the description you use, be sure to tell them to relax while you hit them in the mouth.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in crafty cougar, John Hedek!
	Good morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	By the way, was that Darren O'Neill?
	The one and only.
	Well, I can recognize his voice.
	As I was listening to that...
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	Just a message to Darren.
	A little positive feedback.
	Yes, feedback.
	He is one inch away from being able to do a perfect Rush Limbaugh.
	Well, I hear the slot's opening up soon.
	Whoa!
	Sorry, bad DJ joke is what it does.
	Yeah, Darren is...
	Well, he gets enough practice.
	He can do a limb ball.
	He just needs to drop it down a little bit, slow down.
	I mean, I know exactly what...
	I mean, he's already got the tones.
	He's got the tonal qualities.
	He just needs to execute.
	He does.
	And he has to say stuff like, ditto heads.
	Yeah, if he does that, or megadiddos, I don't even, he does that anymore, but yeah, Darren O'Neill, thank you very much.
	And I have to say, in the morning to our trolls there in the troll room, there's over 1,900 of them.
	We did a quick troll count.
	Thank you all for showing up and for showing your enthusiasm and helping.
	Weighing in with your comments, which are often not suitable for air, but we do appreciate it.
	NoagendaStream.com is where all of that partying takes place.
	We do the show live on Thursdays and Sundays.
	You're welcome to go in there, listen live, troll around, chat around.
	There are people who stay logged in for months on end, never leave.
	It's just part of their life.
	Months on end.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	And also, when you're there, hit someone up for an invite for NoAgendaSocial.com.
	It is our little node on the Federated Social Network, the future of social networking.
	And we're there nice and early and get in on the ground floor.
	Just follow me, Adam at NoAgendaSocial.com.
	And John C. DeVorek at NoAgendaSocial.com?
	Is that your handle there?
	I think so.
	I don't know.
	You do log in from time to time.
	I'm there all the time.
	That's why I don't know, because I'm just there.
	Yeah, you just logged in.
	I understand.
	Exactly.
	Then I'd like to say in the morning to the artist who brought us the artwork for episode number...
	What were we?
	1,242.
	Let me bring up our little show notes page here.
	This art...
	Well, the title of the show was Smokin' Hot.
	This art done by Nick the Rat...
	Really moved people's emotions.
	And when Art does that, it's genius.
	He had the handcuffs, the two arms with the handcuffs and the mask in the middle of the handcuffs as if you're being shackled by the mask.
	It was a dynamite piece.
	There was no question, I think, that this...
	And people responded to it.
	It was an excellent piece of symbolic art.
	There was a lot of pieces.
	A lot.
	Yeah, we had a lot of pieces for some reason.
	Like, a lot.
	And I would say a special commendation to comic strip blogger.
	Who did his rendition of the National Black Journalists Association.
	If you recall, it's the...
	Oh, yes, yeah.
	If you want to see it, go look at...
	He does these...
	Well, I appreciate he did it because he knew that no way of getting this art picked...
	But, man, it certainly gave me joy.
	So thank you for that, CSB. But above all, thank you, Nick the Rat.
	When Nick comes in and does it, he does it right.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Please go have a look at all of the fantastic different submissions.
	And if you want to, you can join in, too.
	It's tough because these artists have stuff done by the end of the show.
	We pick the art...
	Probably about 15 minutes after we're done, after cleaning up the opening and the closing of the show and doing the credits, we're right into that.
	So it's an amazing thing that they do and fantastic value for the show as one of the few podcasts anywhere in the world that has fresh album art for every episode.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you!
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Thank you, Nick.
	You might want to put a time code down for that.
	Got it.
	We do have a few people to thank for show 1243, and I'm going to have you read, because you read part of this note already, and you know where you read and where you didn't read.
	Yes.
	And this is from Sir Mark and Dame Astrid, Duke and Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands of the Japanese Sea, and they came in with $333.33.
	And with a whole bunch of nice pictures of themselves, their staff.
	They're all wearing masks and bragging about it.
	Oh, yes.
	Dear John and Adam, thank you for your courage.
	The last few months of your virus deconstruction has been the best!
	I wanted to give you an update from the front line here in Japan.
	We have dodged the bullet so far and have only 739 deaths for a population of over 126 million.
	That's 5.8 deaths per million compared to the US with 267 deaths per million.
	Of course, that includes people who drink themselves to death.
	And the UK with 511 deaths per million, which is definitely people who drink themselves to death.
	Japan is an incredible 100 times less than the UK. I'm curious, I bet you the Japanese are accurate with their diagnosis of death, their cause of death.
	What do you think?
	I would agree with that.
	I have a feeling that the Japanese are known for precision.
	We're not, apparently.
	Everything has to have a stamp and approval, so they're not going to mess around.
	This is why the Lexus is such a good car, the ones made in Japan.
	Is that why the Lexus is such a good car?
	Is that it?
	It's one of the reasons.
	Okay, now back to masks.
	And he says, we've been doing it right.
	Yeah, masks work.
	The whole country wears them for flu season.
	Every year, especially in the most crowded mass transit system in the world, you wear them so you don't give your cold to others.
	And people have been doing this for years and it's no big deal.
	No stigma attached.
	It's also meant that we had...
	Yes, several billions of them.
	There was just enough to go around.
	Mass usage went up with COVID, but it also meant that it was the weakest flu season over 10 years.
	Then we went through the hotels that he spoke about.
	Contact tracing is big here.
	Not electronic, just lots of legwork.
	All the resources have been put on that and...
	On phones in mass transit.
	Oh no, I'm sorry.
	And on tracking COVID clusters.
	We might have been lucky getting a weaker strain, but it helps not having to shake hands.
	Just bow.
	No huggy kissy greetings.
	No talking on phones in mass transit.
	Hand sanitizers almost everywhere.
	High adoption of touchless electronic payment systems as well as burner cards.
	Finally, the healthcare system here has a low barrier to entry.
	My kids can go to the local doctor themselves, just take their national health card.
	Mom might rock up later.
	Very much neighborhood policing system.
	It's a very sophisticated, disciplined society, which has a lot of downsides, too.
	The kids get a feeling for what's going on.
	It's by no means perfect.
	The prevention testing measures can be seen as flawed.
	The reporting flawed.
	Japan is flawed.
	But all the micro-actions combined make it a rather safe place to be right now.
	There's a lot to be learned from this fuzzy logic and staying calm.
	Sir Mark and Daymaster, Duke and Duchess of Japan, and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea, thank you so much for your courage and can't wait to see you guys in Japan.
	Hope to go this year.
	Hope to go.
	If there's any flights.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Next up on the list is Fred Librand in Medfield, Massachusetts.
	That's $333.
	At the direction of Adam, I've sent it $333 to produce the next episode.
	My last donation was episode 12222, dedouching and sprinkling of job karma would be appreciated.
	Give him a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	My son, Flyknot Jr.
	Yeah, I've seen him around.
	Has a May 25th birthday.
	He's got one, and so does he.
	I think they're both on the birthday list.
	You might want to check.
	Here's an update on what's going on with the medical PPE. It ties to some of the Kayleigh McEnany quotes that are making the rounds.
	One of my manufacturing sites produces layers used in N95 surgical masks.
	Here's a part of what I think has been going on with the lockdown and how PPE played a role.
	As the COVID hit the U.S., we started summarizing more clearly what we knew about the industry.
	We guessed that the U.S. would make about 6 million N95 masks per day.
	million based on a 2004 paper, but when created, there was never more than 85 million.
	At the start of the Rona, it had about 12 million.
	As an example, California's first request was for 20 million.
	In late February, HHS said 90 million was wrong.
	The correct number should have been 330 million.
	Seven days later, HHS says the right number was really 3.5 billion.
	As we've dealt with the military via the Defense Production Act, my guess is that the military and the rest of the U.S. government did the same math and realized that the whole situation was hopelessly out of whack.
	Wait, we can make how many masks?
	That's not enough.
	At this point, with the nature of the disease being very unclear, the best option was to simply shut things down and give the supply chain time to get caught up.
	Masks and PPE will be part of the national...
	Meanwhile, you can impeach Trump over this.
	Yeah, of course.
	Over the mask.
	Mass and PPE will be part of a national defense strategy going forward.
	They're hoping that the rumored bill that is a version of the Berry Amendment for medical supplies is passed soon.
	The Berry Amendment is the legislation that requires the military to buy certain items from producers in the continental U.S. Kayleigh McNamee had a great quote in the recent briefing.
	Furthermore, what Crimson Contagion brought us in that President Trump was right all along about misguided economic and trade policies that left America vulnerable to pandemics.
	Well, not vulnerable to pandemic, but vulnerable due to a pandemic.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	But I totally get it.
	So you, Fred, and Junior are on the list.
	Thank you very much.
	He seems to have a thing for Kayleigh McEnany.
	Yeah.
	I think that's the first time she's ever been mentioned in a donation segment.
	The first two times.
	If he donates again, you can assume it's going to happen one more time.
	Here's your jobs, Karma Fred.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And thank you for the support.
	Let's read this one while I look for the one after that.
	Yeah, this is from producer Jacob, 333, and he says, It's Jacob, your favorite lobbyist.
	Yes, this is one of our lobbyist producers.
	Amy wrongfully said, that would be probably one of your clips, That, quote, corporate lobbying firms are being...
	Oh, that's right.
	We talked about the corporate lobbying firms being bailed out.
	She's wrong.
	There's no bailout provision for lobbyists.
	I think we explained that.
	But, he says, The biggest problem will be a lack of lobbyists next year because so many will retire following this year of record profits.
	Can you believe that shit?
	The Stage 4 and Stage 5 stimulus packages are coming, Stage 5 he's talking about, are coming next and will likely include up to $5 trillion in new spending.
	This is coming from one of the money guys in D.C. So you can take that as some version of a future prediction.
	Send some of the record profits to your way.
	No Agenda producers who need help of an evil corporate lobbyist can reach us.
	In case you need an evil corporate lobbyist, you can reach the official No Agenda lobbyist firm at lobbymeatprotonmail.com.
	Jacob, thank you very much for your courage, and it's appreciated, especially the knowledge that a stage five is coming up to five trillion dollars.
	Woo!
	He's got nothing but money.
	Party, man.
	Party.
	Well, at least he's sharing it with us.
	That's good news.
	The associate executive producer, the first one is Arnest Selmans.
	I can't find any note from him.
	He said $289.56.
	He is in EE, I think.
	Is that Estonia?
	Estonia.
	Yeah, that's Estonia.
	He's in Estonia.
	Oh, yeah.
	Talent.
	Allow me to use my nifty new search bar in Microsoft.
	No, I don't have it either.
	Let me see.
	Search.
	Joanne Brady is next on the list at $222.22.
	By the way, Arnus, if you've got something that you want us to say, we'll send it along.
	222 in Phoenix, Arizona.
	Please accept Corona Cash.
	You're the best podcast ever.
	Thanks.
	Also, call out my brother Michael Brady for being a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Okay.
	Dame Jennifer.
	Oh, by the way, Arnish appears to be a sir, so I'm going to get that straight.
	Dame Jennifer is next on the list at $200.
	Here's to your share of the very generous contributions I've received recently regarding Animated No Agenda.
	I still have major Rona brain, but I am so thankful I stumbled onto No Agenda almost 10 years ago, a big nutty, as bug nutty as I am lately.
	I shudder to think how much crazier I would be without...
	In other words, she's one of the nervous wrecks.
	I'd shudder to think how much crazier I'd be without your show and the wonderful producers I've met along the way.
	You know, Jingles could definitely use a huge jobs karma, maybe the Trump-Pelosi combo to shake things up.
	She puts that as a question mark.
	My answer to that is no.
	Why?
	Let's not shake things up.
	No, don't shake things up.
	You don't want to shake things up with experimental, sketchy, uh, ex, uh, jingles, you know.
	X is in, like, an experimental vehicle.
	The Rona has not been kind to the bottom line.
	Please also sprinkle it out to the producers who are having trouble these days.
	P.S. The 17th is my actual birthday, and I feel so lucky that this is also a show day.
	Well, that sounds like she should be on the birthday list.
	Yeah, she is on the birthday list, actually.
	Funny.
	Show day, thank you all for your courage and support.
	Our tribe is amazing!
	Good old Dame Jennifer.
	And Dame Jennifer, of course, just did another fabulous episode of Animated No Agenda, which was the helicopter money.
	People don't understand us.
	They think that we really don't understand the concept of helicopter money.
	But interestingly, it's not.
	It's heli payments.
	It's a whole different deal.
	Heli payments in Ireland is not the same as helicopter payments that come from the Federal Reserve.
	No, I thought it was...
	Did you see it?
	Did you see the...
	I have not.
	I didn't know it came out.
	Oh, my goodness.
	It's your bit.
	Well, I'll check it out for sure.
	It's very funny.
	Very, very funny.
	I love seeing my own bits.
	Your bits are the best.
	You should use a marker to make sure that no one takes your bit.
	Thank you, Dame Jennifer.
	And here we go with the only jobs karma that makes a difference.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You thought...
	Karma.
	Today's your birthday!
	On the list.
	Forrest Martin, 200 bucks, parts unknown.
	He should be on the birthday list.
	And let me see if he is.
	I thought I saw him there earlier.
	I could be wrong.
	Just making my yearly birthday donation, he writes.
	And congratulations to Adam and the Keeper on their anniversary.
	Oh!
	Now, he remembered.
	It's the 19th, so that's two days away.
	Thank you, Forrest.
	Also thanking you both, gentlemen, for everything you do, keeping people informed and entertained.
	I would like to get an official de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	As it got lost in the shuffle last year.
	And since my job situation has improved since I was first able to donate a year ago a job's karma for everybody who needs it.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Mythos, karma.
	And that's our list of associate executive producers and executive producers for show at 1243.
	It's back to our normal amounts.
	I think everyone's over COVID, I guess.
	I don't know.
	Well, what I appreciate the most of the shows we've done in the past couple months is people feeding back, just like Dame Jennifer said.
	No matter what it is, people seem to find some comfort in listening to us.
	And I'm proud and happy about that.
	I want to thank everybody because it's really the producers.
	Long ago we noticed that it's better to have producers than listeners because they actually do stuff and produce and make things happen.
	There's no way this show would be what it is without you, without the people who support us financially, the clips.
	Thank you.
	Extra thanks to so many producers who are sending...
	If you send a YouTube video pre-cued with the timecode, it saves so much time.
	Thank you.
	Listings of timecodes pre-clipped.
	It's incredibly...
	It's appreciated because that's what it is, and that's why we're the best podcast in the universe.
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	Lots of mouth hitting going on.
	Good to see it.
	We're happy to have you aboard.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Oops.
	The kid was blowing up on me.
	Sorry about that.
	So over the last few days, Biden had this event.
	Even I have Biden clips today.
	Biden had this horrible event.
	I don't even know.
	I mean, let's look at some things objectively.
	You have NBC, MSNBC is owned by Comcast and they're big promoters or big haters of Trump.
	What does it take for Biden's techies to go and get a hold of Comcast and say, hey, look, we're going to do a bunch of these events down out of Biden's basement.
	What is the chance of getting some real high speed, just kick ass connections?
	You guys can help us.
	We consider it a contribution from the campaign contribution, whatever you want it to be called, but we do need some help here.
	Can you give us your best guys and get us some, just, no.
	Can I ask you, wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	Who said that this wasn't their best guys?
	It's Comcast.
	Have you tried Comcast Connection?
	Oh, come on.
	We know they can do better than this.
	I mean, that's a funny line, but the fact is that this one was so bad.
	It was almost like watching that movie, you know, They're Here or whatever it's called, where you put the glasses on and you see these horrible monsters.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Every time Biden moved, his head stayed there on one side and it became a skeleton head.
	It was the worst.
	But before we play that, I do have this one A clip I want to get out of the way, which is Biden.
	Apparently, he was on...
	They were talking about him, Scarborough and...
	What's her name?
	Mika.
	Mika.
	Brzezinski's kid.
	They were discussing Biden's commentary when he was on GMA. And I'm going to play this clip because it's a combination of Biden telling why he's hiding.
	Biden's hiding.
	He's in his basement scared to death.
	And the two of them are going on and on about how great it is because he's a winner.
	Now, everybody says, you know, Biden's hiding.
	Well, let me tell you something.
	We're doing very well.
	We're following the guidelines of the medical profession.
	We're following the guidelines of the experts of Dr.
	Fauci's of the world.
	We're doing very well.
	And matter of fact, we're winning if you look at all the polling data.
	I'm not saying that's going to last till November.
	I don't know enough to know that.
	But right now, the idea that somehow we are being hurt by my keeping to the rules and following the instructions that have been put forward by the docs is absolutely bizarre.
	I reject the premise that somehow this is hurting us.
	There's no evidence of that.
	I'm following the rules.
	Following the rules.
	The president should follow the rules instead of showing up in places without masks and the whole thing.
	I'm sorry.
	He wins that.
	Yeah.
	Every time.
	He wins that.
	Checkmate.
	Every time.
	Yeah.
	You know, Willie, I understand the president and people, some people inside the White House, most of them understand they're whistling past a political graveyard.
	But, you know, Donald Trump, Snubbing doctor's advice in the middle of a pandemic that's killed now of 80,000 people.
	We have new estimates it's going to kill 140,000, 150,000 people after Donald Trump snubbed doctor's advice early on and said this was nothing to worry about.
	He loses to a dude who says, hey, I'm going to follow the doc's advice.
	Because guess what?
	Most Americans are following their doc's advice.
	Following advice of the doctors.
	So, I mean, Joe Biden's right.
	The Brzezinski child and the douche knuckled.
	Jeez.
	You know, we're coming close to banning them.
	Yeah, you can't resist.
	Come on.
	It's the Mika, the Brzezinski child.
	She's pretty funny.
	Which brings me to just a little break in the show here.
	I have my list of ISOs, which includes the top one, Checkmate.
	Oh, hold on a second.
	Checkmate.
	I got it here.
	I got it here.
	The ISO, yeah.
	Checkmate.
	Yeah.
	Checkmate.
	I have one I'd like to try on you.
	Okay.
	Okay, try this one.
	So I'm walking around with the coronavirus.
	I'm asymptomatic.
	I got it.
	You got the Rona?
	Is that what's going on here?
	I didn't know you had the coronavirus.
	Let's try this one.
	Let's try this one.
	Try geese.
	Okay.
	That's the geese you hear in the background.
	Okay.
	That was Biden.
	Okay, let's go this one.
	Another Biden is following rules.
	Following rules.
	Where are we?
	Oh, got it.
	I'm following the rules.
	You know, I'm sorry.
	It just, none of it competes with...
	You can kick their balls, but you can't touch them.
	If that wasn't so echoey, I'd say yes.
	Oh, so now we have to go to rule follower?
	Well, no, no, let's go to another one.
	Try this one, pandemic.
	Okay.
	We're in the middle of a pandemic.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	That's the one.
	That's done.
	I like it.
	That's a good one.
	Well, I got one last one.
	No, you have more, but wait, there's more.
	Okay.
	Put up or shut up.
	Put up or shut up.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I think you nailed it with us.
	We're in the middle of a pandemic.
	It's so perfect for Joe.
	Before you do more Joe clips, may I take you back in time for a moment?
	Sure.
	Let's just get in the time machine for a second.
	Let's go back.
	No!
	Oh!
	To May 20th of 2013...
	Episode 512.
	So this is quite a while ago of the No Agenda show.
	This is what happened.
	That's not going to happen?
	Yeah, that is the dream.
	I think it's called a hallucination.
	I had a real dream last night and I woke up from this.
	Put this in the Red Book just for yucks.
	All right.
	And it was vivid, okay?
	It was vivid, and maybe because we've played a couple of clips of him recently.
	I've been watching video of him.
	Are you ready for this?
	Joe Biden was president.
	I am from the future, ladies and gentlemen.
	Joe Biden.
	I am from the future.
	It's in the red book, I think.
	You should be able to find that.
	It'll be a disaster.
	Alright, so we have Biden giving his little event.
	I got some miscellaneous clips and then some research on him.
	Let's go with the Biden event clips.
	I got three of them.
	I got Anyone you want to play.
	You can play the short little one, which I think is similar to the pandemic when there's Biden's event with the Gov's blather.
	...exists because, you know, one of the few nations that every major crisis we've faced in our history has been in a situation where we have...
	Come out stronger.
	Come out stronger.
	And what I'm finding, and maybe we can go back to this later, but I'm finding that, you know, this whole crisis sort of taken the blinders off most people.
	You know, the people who weren't...
	Are there geese in the background?
	Yes.
	Necessarily prejudiced, but just didn't focus.
	That's the geese you hear in the background.
	Those Canadian geese are trying to get away from the virus.
	Anyway, all kidding aside, what happens is that what I'm finding people who are constantly calling me, and I know we're all in place, but we have on the phone probably six hours a day, are people are talking about how they didn't realize that it was somebody making, you know, seven bucks an hour is making, had their back.
	By the time he got to the end, I had no idea what he was talking about.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	That was the point of that clip.
	Well, it worked.
	And there's a little sub-clip here.
	This is Biden's event with the Gov's Blather 1-W-A-H-O. Yeah, I got it.
	And I know you all stand for that.
	We got a lot of ground to cover.
	So let's start with this.
	Know that Iris can hit anyone, but it doesn't affect every community the same.
	Oh, shoot.
	Oh, no, I disconnected my head.
	You know, I got a real problem with these headphones, and I'm not going to hear you for at least seven seconds so you can fill up the void while I'm waiting for my headphones to come back.
	Well, that was a classic example of both how stupid this event was.
	This was Biden and three governors.
	But the lousy connection, none of them could, none of them, in fact, all three, plus Biden, couldn't talk at all.
	They were all...
	I like how you said Iris.
	Now, I got one clip of Joe with the number mix-up.
	Do you have that one?
	No, but I have this last one from this series.
	Okay.
	And this says, Biden event with Gov's blather, and this has no other moniker on there.
	Okay.
	Exists, because, you know, a few nations...
	No, wait, that's the one we played.
	We played that one first.
	No, the one you played first should have been Gov's blather zero, Z-W-E-O. No, we...
	You didn't play the one that says zero?
	Oh, okay.
	Yes, I have it.
	Here we go.
	Desperately need your...
	We did not play zero.
	We played this one.
	Oh, then play zero.
	Play zero.
	Desperately need your...
	It would help if it didn't say Zweo.
	Yeah, you can...
	I thought it might have been like...
	You don't have to humiliate me in public.
	I know how to spell.
	Okay.
	I'm not humiliating you.
	I'm telling you that if I want to humiliate you, that's easy.
	I was saying I thought it might be a CEO clip or something.
	I didn't know that it was zero.
	It's fine.
	Believe me, you take these Joe Biden clips out of order, it doesn't matter.
	Not matter.
	Desperately need your commies going.
	This is not a moment for excuses or deflections or blame game.
	We're in the middle of a pandemic that had cost us more than 85,000 jobs as of today.
	Lives of millions of people.
	That's the one.
	Millions of people.
	Millions of jobs.
	That's the one.
	Everybody shakes their head and says, Joe's gonna win the race!
	You know, and we're in a position where, you know, we just got new unemployment insurance this morning, numbers.
	36.5 million claims since this crisis began.
	And almost 3 million new claims in the last week.
	The unemployment rate is nearing 15%, the highest it's been since the Great Depression, but I need not tell you all that.
	Of course, it's the least well-off for being hit the hardest.
	40% of the households making $40,000 or less experienced a job loss just in March.
	And we're going to have to work harder and smarter than ever before to pull ourselves out of this economic tailspin.
	And this is the problem with Joe, is that when he gets a sentence out, it's really nothing.
	There's just nothing in it.
	We're going to have to work hard, pull together.
	He doesn't really have any...
	I think I've not heard one single policy-oriented solution.
	Even for African Americans, he came out with the big Joe Biden's black agenda, which was...
	I think it's called We Will Lift All Voices, which is not pandering at all to the religious black Americans.
	And what he says in there, oh, we're going to do a study.
	We're going to do a study to see if we should do some reparations.
	This is the kind of crap that is not going to fly.
	Sorry?
	Is that still the clip?
	Oh yeah, there's another 47 seconds to go.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It seems like weeks go by.
	But all of you know.
	My second anniversary has already taken place, this clip is so long.
	The only way out of this is by following the science, listening to the experts, talking and taking responsible precautions that are going to help us reopen the economy.
	I say we're fleeing as quickly as possible.
	And as we do, there's got to be federal support to state and local levels of our government, in my view, so that we'll be able to come out of this crisis stronger and more united.
	We have an opportunity, in my view, to transform the economy as we come out.
	To build a more inclusive and more resilient middle class.
	And I think that can withstand the next public crisis, whatever it is.
	However it comes about.
	Not just reward the people who are well off and well connected.
	It's time for us to make sure everyone gets a fair shot at success in this country.
	That's science.
	I don't believe in science.
	One last clip I want to get to get this series completely out of the way.
	They talked about this on PBS.com.
	A little bit.
	And Judy, this is a Judy smear.
	This is a smear that she slipped into this little announcement discussing the Biden event.
	In the day's other news, former Vice President Joe Biden says that if elected president, he would not pardon Donald Trump or his associates of any crimes.
	Instead, he says he would let any investigations play out.
	The presumptive Democratic nominee spoke in a virtual town hall on MSNBC last night, and he accused Mr.
	Trump of abusing his power.
	We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.
	It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct either a prosecution and or decide to drop a case.
	That is not the president's role or responsibility, and it's a dereliction of his duty.
	What is he?
	Is he talking about Flynn?
	Is that what he's saying?
	Yeah, I think it's about Flynn.
	Well, I have the clip where he is...
	I think he's in up to his eyeballs in this Flynn thing.
	Yeah, I got it.
	And by the way, this was a smear.
	When Judy says that he's not going to pardon Trump, the way it was presented was as though Trump had created an actual crime.
	What's the crime?
	Let's go to the town hall and let's see how this came about.
	Judy did not play the source material because it was a request from an audience member.
	Here it is.
	Would you be willing to commit to not pulling a president forward and giving Donald Trump a pardon under the pretense of healing the nation?
	In other words, are you willing to commit to the American ideal that no one is above the law?
	Absolutely, yes.
	I commit.
	I don't know if it was a spiked call or whatever, but I commit.
	These commitments, please.
	But this town hall was very interesting for another reason.
	All of a sudden, and this was the Joe Biden special event, MSNBC, I think it was Lawrence, what's his name?
	No.
	Lawrence O'Donnell.
	Lawrence O'Donnell.
	So he's hosting it, and all of a sudden, we've got Lawrence in the middle, Joe on the right, and Stacey Abrams pops up on the left-hand box, and hilarity ensued as we watch Stacey Abrams slowly lose her soul on live TV. I want to begin this with a question to Joe Biden because Stacey Abrams is here because Joe Biden invited Stacey Abrams to be here.
	And so, Mr.
	Vice President, do you have an announcement to make?
	Is this an audition?
	Is there...
	What is the reason that you decided it's time for me to get...
	What?
	What'd you say?
	Stop the hammering.
	Get on TV with Stacey Abrams.
	Well, because Stacey Abrams has done more to deal with the fair vote and making sure there is a fair vote than anybody.
	And she has a great, great capacity to explain things.
	Mind you, she's sitting here right now, saying nothing, looking in the camera in her own box on the left.
	The smile started to slowly fade.
	And to lay out exactly why it's going to be so critically important in this election.
	This president's already said, when they put in the stimulus package that Congress first passed, money to provide for mail-in ballots, he already said, I'm not for that.
	If we do that, no Republican will ever win, or something to that effect.
	He's made it clear.
	This is a guy who said he wants to defund the post office from being able to deliver ballots.
	I mean, so Stacey knows what she's doing, and she's an incredibly capable person.
	And so since then, that said nothing.
	He set her up, do you want to make an announcement?
	Of course, everyone's thinking, oh my goodness, this is going to be the VP announcement.
	Nothing!
	No.
	That's embarrassing.
	Do you think?
	And by the way, when did Trump say he wanted to defund the post office so they wouldn't deliver a caption?
	I love that, too.
	I thought that was a nice touch.
	When did he say that?
	No, I don't think he ever said that.
	That was Joe.
	Someone told Joe, hey, just make it up.
	Ugh.
	Ugh, ugh, ugh.
	So it's...
	I did see part of this.
	I didn't take any clips from it, but Stacey Abrams is really a dud.
	I just don't understand why I'm so jacked up about it.
	And I will say it again.
	I'm going to remind everybody my thinking on this.
	Having been a Democrat, there's not a woman in the Democrat Party that will have Stacey Abrams as president.
	Until a white woman is president first.
	If I may, this was a big topic on MoFax, and we discussed the VP slot specifically from an ADOS perspective, and Stacey Abrams is not wanted, is not going to be it, is being shunned, and the reason why, which I thought was, I hadn't really considered, she is the Oprah candidate.
	And when she ran for governor in Georgia, Oprah went down, Jay-Z, Beyonce, everybody was there, and she couldn't win.
	And I think that...
	And remember, Oprah, of course, she feels that she made Barack Obama, and she had a big hand in it, for sure.
	And this is her candidate.
	Oprah can't run herself.
	But this would be kind of like an Oprah, like an Oprah ugly.
	And the Democrat Party wants nothing to do with her, and I think wants nothing to do with Oprah.
	Certainly after seeing the combo, Oprah and Stacey Abrams in Georgia failed.
	And they're probably questioning all kinds of celebrity endorsements if they really are worth it anymore.
	So, no, Stacey, according to Moe, and I think he laid out the...
	I think he laid out the case for that, is not going to be the vice president.
	There's no doubt about that.
	Not going to be the vice presidential nominee.
	But she'll do anything.
	She'll even show up and be publicly embarrassed.
	Well, I'll just add to my thinking on this, is that no black woman will be the vice presidential candidate under Biden.
	takes it a little further than just the targeting Stacey.
	Because again, there were white women that are Democrats are more racist than the Republicans by a lot, having been in both parties.
	And they will not put, especially when Hillary was snubbed, they will not allow a black woman of any sort, Stacey Abrams or otherwise.
	That's why Camilla and the rest of them are all out too, for other reasons.
	I'm sure you can target them, but because they want a white, woman as the first female president, period.
	And you think they're that racist, the Democrat Party?
	Yeah.
	I do.
	I know.
	They're already misogynists, or not, I'm sorry, misanthropists by saying it can only be a woman, it can't be a man, because we don't qualify, we're no good, we're stupid.
	Just look at Joe.
	It's going to be a white...
	If it's not a...
	White woman, Amy Klobuchar, would be at the top of the list.
	I would say that he wants to go for some other ethnic possibilities.
	Again, I'll bring in Lou Han Grisham out of New Mexico, and somebody sent us a note going on and on about how...
	That was good.
	Me in particular, since I've been promoting her.
	You saw that note?
	Yeah, I did.
	Actually, I'm going to grab the clip for you.
	Here's the clip that brought this comment on.
	Hold on a second.
	And our Secretary of State insisted, and this broke the meeting up basically in terms of her influence, that this be called the Lujan virus.
	Which was, our producer said, well, he just gave away who it's going to be.
	He gave away the vice presidential pick.
	Lujan was in the back of his head.
	He couldn't just not say it.
	And so it's a logical...
	Very logical.
	There's no agenda-style thinking, I agree.
	But, you know, I'm still...
	I'm hedging my Lujan bet.
	I'm putting her in the second spot under Amy.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Amy Klobuchar?
	My Amy Klobuchar is now top spot?
	Yes, your heart dropped.
	Amy!
	Amy!
	She would be kick-ass as Vice President.
	I'm sure she would.
	Well, except for the fact that she throws staplers and yells at her staff and she's mean, which they've suppressed to such an extreme.
	Now, we haven't heard none of these stories.
	They were only apparent at the beginning of the campaigning, which makes me think that she may be a possibility for the VP slot.
	They're sanitizing her as we speak.
	So, just to be clear, Amy Klobuchar is my Amy, and you have Amy from PBS. No, Fair Deal.
	Democracy Now!
	Yeah, from Democracy Now!
	That's your Amy, and Amy Klobuchar is mine.
	Thank you very much, yeah.
	That's my Amy.
	I get my Amy, you get your Amy.
	Hey, I have sports news!
	Are you ready for some sports news coming from me?
	Oh, this should be rich.
	Going into this season coming up...
	This is from Fox Sports.
	Fox Sports.
	Fox FS1. Fox Sports.
	And that comes with a huge asterisk, and hopefully there is a season.
	There's probably going to be a season in doing games with no fans.
	Which will be difficult.
	I think Fox and these networks have to put crowd noise under us to make it a learning experience at home.
	You think they'll do that?
	I do.
	Really?
	In fact, I know they'll do it.
	Let him finish.
	Let him finish.
	You're yelling through my sports clip.
	It's not that often that I bring one.
	In fact, I know they'll do it.
	That's the conversation right now.
	It's pretty much a done deal.
	I think whoever's going to be at that control is going to have to be really good at their job and be realistic with how a crowd would react, depending on what just happened on the field.
	Oh, brilliant.
	It's really important.
	And then on top of that, they're looking at ways to put virtual fans in the stands.
	So when you see a wide shot, it looks like the stadium is jam-packed.
	Hey, sports fans, you're not needed.
	You're completely replaceable.
	In fact, they should just play the games in a big blue screen, green screen auditorium and do all kinds of cool stuff.
	You know what this confirms...
	The basic no-agenda thesis is that all sports are rigged.
	No kidding.
	This is taking the rigging to a maximum.
	You have fake audience, fake noise, fake applause, the whole thing.
	You know, it's the canned laughter again.
	Put canned laughter to get a canned laughter guy in there and have him just yuck it up.
	It's unbelievable.
	Oh my god, I can't believe it's an interception!
	Oh no, he dropped, he fumbled!
	It's the best we can do.
	That's about all I got.
	Oh my god, there's a cruise missile!
	There's a cruise missile going over the stadium!
	What can we do about it?
	The cruise missile!
	I have nothing else.
	Yeah, that'd be very sad.
	But it'll fit with the fake outcome of these games, so that's good.
	Oh yes, I do have one more Biden-related clip, short one.
	The convention, which is coming up in...
	When is there?
	Is the Democrat...
	It was supposed to be in August.
	Have they moved it?
	No, maybe it was in July and they moved it to August.
	I don't know.
	August is the last I heard.
	Here is the communications director of the DNC regarding the convention.
	And I think this...
	Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it felt a little bit like...
	Not everyone in the party is on board with Joe.
	Have a listen.
	I mean, there's a real possibility that the convention does not happen, or it happens in a virtual sense.
	Is that correct as of today?
	Well, first of all, our convention has to happen because we are not officially nominating Joe Biden in order to take Donald Trump.
	So our convention is happening.
	There is business that has to happen.
	Now, when it comes to...
	What our convention is going to look like, I can guarantee you that our convention will ensure that safety first, whether it is our delegates, the people of Milwaukee, or all of those involved in a convention, we will make sure that they are safe, whatever that looks like, and that they vote for our nominee.
	Now, did you catch the beginning of how she phrased that?
	I'll play it again.
	I mean, there's a real possibility that the convention does not happen, or it happens in a virtual sense.
	Is that correct as of today?
	Well, first of all, our convention has to happen because we are not officially nominating Joe Biden in order to take Donald Trump.
	I like how it's...
	Yeah, I did notice that.
	...to take Donald Trump.
	I thought that was an interesting use of words.
	Is that how they see it, to take Donald Trump?
	Well, that's their only goal, but did you listen to it carefully?
	She says, our...
	Convention is not to nominate Joe Biden.
	Is that correct?
	Well, first of all, our convention has to happen because we are not officially nominating Joe Biden in order to take Donald Trump.
	So our convention is happening.
	There is business that has to happen.
	We're not nominating Joe Biden, is what she said.
	I told you there's something weird in that clip, and she seems like she's not...
	I don't know, for a comms director, I think she let out a little bit too much there, in my personal opinion.
	Oh yeah, they don't care about anything but Donald Trump.
	You can't win elections that way.
	Alright, I am very excited to have a second half of show coming up for you, which is a send-in from one of our producers.
	But first, I think we should thank some more people who are on the spreadsheet for today.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Yeah, we do have some people to thank.
	Starting with John Patrick.
	And he came in with $100 even.
	Why don't you read a couple of these because I do have a couple of notes I do want to read.
	Well, we don't typically read these.
	I'm not sure, but okay.
	Get me down to where it says I got a note.
	I got to go to the desk and get the note.
	Oh, you're just making me do it.
	Okay.
	John Patrick, Decatur, Illinois, $100.
	Much respect for you both for COVID sanity.
	Anonymous, $100, has a douchebag call-out and is from an anonymous parts unknown.
	Don't mention full name, location, just, well, we're just doing anonymous.
	I'd like to call out, oh my goodness, I'd like to call out Dame Jennifer as a douchebag for never sending an invoice for some voiceover work she did.
	Well, how about that?
	She's too good.
	She's too good for this world.
	Too good.
	John Cooper, Downers Grove, Illinois.
	You have the notes for this?
	Yeah, he has a note.
	Here's what I was doing.
	This is another note.
	This is a note that's good.
	And I want to read it.
	I am new to your show after hearing Adam on JRE. Woo!
	Another notch in your belt.
	Well, wait until you hear the latest.
	I immediately thought I had to find out more about that guy.
	I got to tell you.
	Joe and I were texting.
	And Joe keeps mentioning me on his show.
	I noticed a couple of mentions, yeah.
	But here's the thing.
	So Tina, the other night, was sitting on the couch watching TV. And I'm texting.
	She said, hey, who are you texting?
	I said, my friend Joe.
	She says, Joe DeGeneva?
	Yeah!
	That sounds about right.
	Classic.
	Anyway, onward.
	Yes, this has done well.
	This is eight people so far who have come over to our tribe from JRE. I'm very, very pleased with that.
	John continues, What is the significance of the number 33?
	Are you big fans of Rolling Rock beer?
	Well...
	Let him stew in this one.
	Really?
	Well, let me just say one thing.
	We've noticed over time that when the number 33 shows up in news reports, there's typically something very fishy going on with the report or with the situation.
	Now...
	Of course, we've taken it so far, and this has been going on since almost the first day we did the show, that people are noticing it everywhere.
	And during this Rona crisis, it was everywhere.
	It's 33 this, 33 that, 33 people are sick, 33 this, and we have a jingle for it.
	So that's it.
	It's the magic number.
	Whenever we see 33, we pay attention.
	We're never sure what it's going to mean, but something always comes out of it.
	Yeah, it's code.
	It's code.
	And here's another one he brings up, which I think should be – I'm reading this because this is good stuff to reiterate for the newcomers.
	It seems harsh to call people douchebags that have not donated, but I will not become a douchebag.
	I've included my donation of $100.
	Okay, let's start with that concept.
	This was not our idea.
	No.
	Ever.
	Nope.
	No.
	We also don't do it if you realize we are reading the notes that people send in.
	We're not calling them douchebags.
	Uh...
	Anyway, he goes on, he says, he goes on just thanking us for the show.
	Appreciate the insights on audio production and proper microphone usage.
	I love benefiting from people's expertise in areas where I would otherwise not get it.
	My ear is now much more attuned.
	Oh, excellente.
	I thought you liked that.
	Of course.
	Thank you, John.
	So anyway, onward to Forrest Morris.
	The Forrest.
	I love the name Forrest.
	Forrest Morris the Forth.
	Forrest Morris.
	Another one.
	Another one.
	Uh, what?
	Well, he's Forrest Morris.
	Oh, yes, it's the second note.
	It's right behind this other one, I think.
	No, I don't have the Forrest Morris note.
	No, no, no, no.
	I'm going to read you the note.
	When I say another one, it's something else.
	Forrest Morris IV, $99.96 from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where we have a lot of producers.
	Forrest the Masked Barber here, listening since Joe Rogan experience.
	Withholding two cents for John's opinions on barbers and stylists not listening and not needing any time to professionally handle health and safety, and two cents for his mask as he will need to wear one at his haircut.
	Keep up the great work.
	Would like some karma for tips.
	Yeah, we'll get some karma for you at the end of this.
	Steve Cabrell, I think, at 8008, at Boobs Donation.
	And this is a first donation, so he says a dedouching is in order.
	You've been dedouched.
	Got it.
	So Herb Lamb of the Earl of Georgia, Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.
	Ronald Scholl came in with a pop money donation.
	Joe Weish in Miami, Florida, 7777.
	He has the note that he wrote this check-in, and this is another note I put aside for this reason.
	A quick message from Miami where they're trying to move South Florida into a new normal.
	This morning when I was taking my daily walk, I was listening to yesterday's podcast, 1241.
	John just started to talk about the morons who are wearing masks while driving alone.
	And no sooner did he make that statement, within four minutes I witnessed three separate mass commandos alone driving in their vehicles, fighting off the corona.
	With the air conditioning off and the windows up.
	With your recommendation, you also listened to a two-hour interview with the JFK Jr.
	interview.
	He says it was a great treasure trove of good information, and we do recommend that interview if you can find it.
	It's RFK. It's RFK Jr.
	RFK. What did I say?
	JFK Jr.
	Oh, that's a mistake.
	I probably did say JFK. Tyler Arnold's next on the list, $75.
	$75.
	He says he's sorry.
	Is this hate mail going your way, Adam?
	I just want to thank you, but it's really hate mail for John that gets sent to me, and I don't understand.
	They keep doing it.
	Tyler, thanks.
	Well, all hate mail to John should go to Adam at Curry.com.
	Sir Milkman in Arcadia, Georgia, 66-69.
	Sir Jake...
	Of the IP Bogan, IT Bogan, I'm sorry, Maury Field, Queensland, Australia, 59-59.
	And he's got his old man Jeff on the birthday list.
	On the list.
	Got that.
	Daniel Moriano in Pflugerville, Texas, 55-10.
	Sir Buck of 21-12, 55.
	Yes, it needs to be stopped.
	Happy birthday from Sir Buck of 21-12 to my beautiful, caring, talented, pretty lady, yes, It is Dame Jennifer of Animated Noah Jen.
	This is her husband.
	This is Dame Jennifer's show.
	Pretty much.
	Dame Jennifer, would you mind doing the show for us?
	She used to be smoking hot, and now she's beautiful.
	Well, he listened to the warning that you gave.
	You're not allowed to do that anymore.
	You were very explicit.
	I like the suggestions.
	Darren has some good ones in there.
	Classics.
	I like the crafty cool.
	Michael Washbysh in Racine, Wisconsin, $55.
	His brother Rick...
	Who hit him in the mouth.
	I know he's listening, but he has not donated, so he needs to be called out as a douchebag.
	Ilana Margulis, $51.
	Carl Vogler, $50.33.
	D.H. Slammer.
	Haven't heard from him for a couple of weeks.
	Baron of the Central California coast.
	Ventura to Santa Cruz, $50.33.
	And he's got a warning for...
	Cyrus.
	Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 50.
	The following people are all $50 donors.
	Name and location, beginning with Sir Chris Lewinsky.
	Well, actually, Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County.
	Chris Lewinsky, Christopher Muller in Cedar Park.
	Travis Fricker in Philadelphia.
	I got a birthday.
	Al Liebel in Newark, Delaware.
	Joseph Harper in Arnold, Maryland.
	And John Camp in Antlers, Oklahoma.
	I want to thank all these folks listed thus as producers of show 1243.
	And thanks for helping us out.
	Yes.
	And also those who came in under 50 for anonymity.
	And we have a lot of these programs.
	All of it is appreciated.
	The value-for-value system is real simple.
	Whatever you think the show is worth, that's what you send us.
	If it's not worth anything, don't send us anything.
	But what we see here today is great.
	Thank you so much.
	And as we said, we'll be back on Thursday.
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	Health and Jobs Karma?
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	Ilana Margulis says happy birthday to Harlan's father, Zach.
	Forrest Martin celebrates today.
	Travis Springer says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Becky.
	She turned 33 on the 15th.
	Sir Buck of 2112.
	Happy birthday to his beautiful, caring, talented wife, Dame Jennifer.
	She is celebrating today on the 17th.
	As is Damien.
	He is Sir Aaron Yoho's son.
	He turns 11.
	Dame Jennifer Weedup says, Happy birthday to Sir Greg Davies.
	Now, you know Sir Greg Davies is our knight who passed away.
	We miss him dearly.
	He would have been 44 years old tomorrow.
	We celebrate him still.
	Of course.
	Sir Jake says happy birthday to his father, Jeff Canyon, 59 on the 20th.
	And Fred Librand says happy birthday to his son, Flyknock Jr., who will be celebrating on the 25th.
	And Fred himself will be celebrating on the 31st.
	Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	Woo!
	We do know, you know, actually we have a meetup report, a very short one.
	I guess there was, yeah, some people are diehards, and I appreciate it.
	This is Vernon.
	This is the May 16th Marcellus, New York, Nine Mile Creek meetup report.
	Adam, there were plenty of people sitting around, maskless, at the picnic tables and benches near the baseball diamond at Marcellus Park, but no one asked me about no agenda.
	People did ask me about my white cockapoo's red boots, which was the indicator I was the meetup leader.
	I guess not.
	Many people look at the website.
	If no podcast meetup announcement is made, there you go.
	So I guess that was a one-person meetup.
	Darn.
	Sorry, Vernon.
	Better luck next time when the Rona is over.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered on hell's flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party!
	So, are you ready for, um, some seconds?
	I don't want to take, before you go into, no, before you do that, I got a little entremant.
	Okay.
	And curiously, this is 43 seconds, and it looked like the Joe Biden stuff, which is really less than two minutes, but it went on forever for some unknown reason.
	This is going to be another one.
	This is apparently all the virtue signaling celebrities, mostly, are out there showing, doing commencement speeches.
	Yes, yes, including the president, right?
	They're all doing...
	I didn't know that he was doing one, but he'd go and do it.
	Oh, no, I'm sorry.
	President Obama, I meant.
	Not our president.
	President Obama has been doing commencement speeches.
	Oh, yes.
	That would be true.
	But they're all doing them virtually, and they're in a bucket.
	They're usually in a bucket, or they found a good place to put the mic.
	It's a little bucket on the side.
	And they're all in a bucket, and they're all giving these commencement speeches that are lame, and they're terrible.
	But I decided I'm going to look for the worst.
	Oh, yay!
	Yay!
	So this is a short snippet from Tom Hanks giving a commencement speech to some Western case or something.
	I got the name of the school here somewhere.
	It's Wright State.
	Wrights.
	I never heard of him.
	Wright State.
	Sorry, anybody from Wright State alums.
	So he's giving this speech.
	He's reading it, kind of, but he kind of lost track, and I think he started off with saying the wrong thing, and he tried to make up for it, and he just never really caught up to it, so the speech became this discombobulated piece of crap.
	Here it is.
	Congratulations to you, chosen ones.
	Wow, stop right there.
	This is...
	I don't understand how they allow this to happen.
	This sound is just beyond me.
	Beyond me.
	Congratulations to you chosen ones.
	And I am calling you the chosen ones because you have been chosen in many ways.
	You have not returned to the starting line like all of us generations before you.
	You're just approaching it now for the first time.
	You've just arrived.
	You are chosen in that way.
	To enter into the competition of life just when so many have had to recover and refresh and restart and reawaken.
	And to retake up the hard work and the unshirkable responsibilities of making the world not only our own, but of your own.
	Wow!
	Here's what happened.
	I think he kind of ad-libbed the beginning, thinking it was going to be cool.
	And he said...
	Congratulations to the chosen ones.
	And then he thought to himself, right on the spot, wait a minute.
	I'm the chosen one.
	Old Jews?
	I mean, this is offensive what I'm saying here.
	And so he then goes and tries to make up for it, and he says, by what I mean by chosen ones, and then the whole thing falls apart, and it's just an embarrassment, and he's in his home with a brick wall behind him, and he's trying to read off his notes.
	This is just should not be, people should not be doing this.
	That was pretty much the definition of phoning it in.
	It was really bad.
	From the sound to the copy to everything.
	And even the intent.
	Even the intent.
	Why are they doing that?
	Very odd.
	And if you're going to do it, make it memorable.
	Not like, oh, I'm Tom Hanks in a bucket.
	The other thing is these guys all know production values, and people like Tom Hanks is a good example.
	He's not like Steve Martin.
	He's a producer!
	Yes, he's a producer.
	He could produce a video, and he could put the good sound with it.
	He's got nothing else to do.
	He's holed up in his mansion.
	He could put a track behind himself.
	He could have a green screen.
	He could be in Paris.
	I mean, there's a million things you could do to make it lively, but no.
	He just walks through a bucket presentation.
	It's embarrassing.
	These guys are just showing that they really...
	Are they really producers?
	Or are they just frontmen with no talent?
	What was the school he was doing this for?
	As it's billed, by the way, on news sites as Tom Hanks' inspiring 2020 commencement address.
	How's it inspiring?
	Inspiring.
	Who was it for, though?
	Wright State.
	Is that his alma mater?
	I don't know.
	I didn't go that deep into it.
	No, they quote him.
	No one will be more fresh to the task of restarting our measure of normalcy than you.
	You chosen ones.
	Oh, brother.
	Alright, fine.
	Alright, Tom Hanks.
	So that is the worst commencement speech I could find.
	Now entering second half of show.
	It's been a while.
	It's been a while.
	Second half of show.
	I received multiple emails over the past few days about the earthquakes in Nevada.
	Exactly.
	I didn't know either.
	I'm like, there's earthquakes in Nevada?
	What's going on?
	I saw a couple of headlines about earthquakes in Nevada.
	So we had Dame Angela, but like 30 or 40 of them.
	It was all day long.
	Yeah.
	And people were a little concerned.
	But now...
	There's some fracking going on somewhere.
	Well, that's what you'd think.
	But we have a boots-on-the-ground report from Sir Joel.
	So he's royalty.
	You know, he's legit.
	Sir Joel, the skinny trucker, battle-born black baron of the northern Nevada.
	Certainly you've heard of him.
	Here he is with his earthquake report.
	Hey Adam and John, this is Joel the Skinny Trucker, also known as Sir Joel the Battleborn Black Baron of Northern Nevada.
	Just wanted to give you my update on the Nevada earthquake that we had early this morning on Friday, May 15th.
	I was driving through pretty much the epicenter exactly when it happened.
	Felt the truck shake a bit and I was wondering, what's going on?
	on.
	It's pretty windy.
	But as I was going up the road, Highway 95, there was one crack.
	And I'm like, oh, that's strange.
	That wasn't here when I drove down to Tonopah from Reno.
	And then there was another crack and then a third crack.
	And I'm like, oh, there must have been an earthquake.
	And lo and behold, there was.
	But interesting thing that I noticed as this was happening, I was looking up on the ridgeline of the mountains to the west.
	And I saw this bright blue light behind the mountains.
	And I'm like, oh, I wonder what that is.
	Because it didn't look like an airplane or any kind of truck light.
	It looked like something else.
	Welcome to my show!
	If you guys know the area, Middle Nevada, Western Nevada, it is a lot of federal land.
	There's a huge Army Depot just north in Hawthorne, and Area 51 is not too far away.
	So who knows?
	Maybe get the theremin out, some tinfoil hotage, and hopefully some other producers have some information that maybe can shed some light on the subject.
	But that's my take from Northern Nevada.
	It's the Battle Born Black Baron.
	Joel, in the morning, thank you.
	Thank you for your courage.
	In the morning, thank you for your courage.
	Well, Northern Nevada and Area 51, they're not even close.
	No, but I don't think he was insinuating it was aliens.
	I've been paying attention to this weird weather.
	We have had torrential downpour, literally just Texas.
	It's been very interesting to see the weather patterns.
	And maybe there's some harp fireage going on.
	Who knows?
	I don't know what's happening.
	But the blue light out there, that's odd.
	And these earthquakes, has that happened before?
	Like 30, 40 earthquakes on a day in Nevada?
	Maybe it has, I don't know.
	There's an area in Nevada where they have a lot of quakes, but that was due to fracking.
	Right.
	I don't know.
	We'll keep an eye on it.
	I'm sure that we'll find out nothing.
	Oh, you're so positive.
	We'll keep looking.
	We'll keep looking.
	We're not going to get anywhere with this.
	Any more screwball reports?
	No, I don't have that, but I do have an update on thousands of sealed indictments.
	Yes, yes, yes, I'm telling you.
	Everyone's out on the woodworks.
	We've got everyone talking.
	Clappers on TV. I think is a good journalist John Solomon to bring us the lowdown.
	Yeah, everyone I've talked to today has been exasperated by the judge's conduct, but at the end of the day, it's a lot of show for an inevitable conclusion.
	At the end of the day, these charges are going to be dismissed against General Flynn because the law requires it.
	When both parties go in as they do in this case, and when there is a preponderance of evidence as there is in this case, The courts have consistently allowed a vacation or vacating of a conviction like this.
	It's just going to extend the drama a little longer, but it's going to inevitably end up, whether it's at the Supreme Court, the appellate court, or the district court, it's going to end up getting the charges are going to be dismissed.
	Finally, and I do say finally, Lindsey Graham has scheduled a hearing to dig into these very serious issues.
	I know his investigative staff very well.
	They're very competent.
	They've been working very hard behind the scenes.
	They're going to have some big, big revelations that are not yet public that will move this narrative along and show just how far reaching the corruption inside the bureaucracy was.
	As for the issue of President Obama, you know, there's going to come a moment after that first Evidence is laid out in his hearings where people are going to obviously say, hey, this started at the top with President Obama.
	And then I think Lindsey Graham will have to face the music of his own evidence and decide what he's going to do.
	And I think that moment may, you know, when the evidence is all out there, there'll be an even more poignant question to the chairman.
	Why aren't you talking to President Obama?
	And I think, well, you know, let's see what the evidence comes out.
	But keep in mind, over the last few months, there's been a lot of information taken from the National Archives.
	From the Obama administration, they lay out a very powerful case.
	We're going to begin to see that evidence over the next three, four weeks.
	And all I can say from what I know from my reporting is, buckle your seatbelt.
	Boo!
	Buckle your seatbelt.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, first of all, I am not buckling my seatbelts, for starters.
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, no kidding.
	Because nothing's coming of any of this.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'm not so sure.
	I think that something's going to happen.
	This Flynn stuff and the unmasking and FISA court abuses, I think something will come of that.
	Let me finish.
	It's easy to say bleh.
	I have some receipts.
	I have some back up.
	There's a lot of running around of people coming out who haven't spoken for a long time, and I think they're all jockeying and positioning.
	Clapper seems to be the top guy.
	Now, this was CNN. People called this differently than it was.
	The way it was posted is, oh, look, he asked him a tough question, and then the connection breaks.
	But it actually, you can hear a little, truly an audio glitch.
	It froze right after the first question, so he probably didn't even hear the second one.
	But that doesn't mean that he wasn't removed from this Zoom call, so he could not answer.
	Here's Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, and a liar, a liar to Congress, but unindicted.
	Okay, so asking for names, nothing wrong with that.
	Unmasking in and of itself, nothing wrong with that.
	Leaking classified information, and by definition these phone calls were classified, that's a problem, correct?
	Oh, absolutely.
	It is.
	You hear the little brr, that's when he cut out.
	But we'll do the question anyway.
	...did leak the contents of these conversations with or without the name.
	That would be a problem, yes?
	We've lost the shot.
	I wonder if we can at least get him on the phone to finish this.
	Let's try to get Director Clapper back.
	All right, we're going to work on getting that shot.
	Yeah.
	So, of course, they did get him back later.
	This question didn't come up.
	But was he willing to testify?
	Yeah.
	Can you come in and testify?
	Given my age demographic, I'd be happy to come after I've been vaccinated for COVID-19.
	Would you testify remotely?
	I could do it remotely as the case with the Fauci hearing or respond to questions or that sort of thing, but I don't particularly want to put my life without my life in jeopardy for in-person testimony.
	Yeah, so basically not intending to testify to anything at all because Corona, COVID. The other guy out and about was former CIA director John Brennan.
	And do you know yet if his clearance has been removed?
	No, I've got no information one way or the other.
	We just don't know.
	I'd like to remind you John Brennan's stance on the law and when you are guilty or when you should be sentenced or charged.
	It's very short.
	He's very clear.
	People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
	So, this would be guilty John Brennan, who was alleged to have some part in criminal activity.
	And this is a longer clip, but I think it's extra good because you can hear, well, we'll discuss it, Chris Hayes and John Brennan.
	There does seem to be a bit of a shift in the last several months with William Barr at the Department of Justice, with Richard Grinnell at DNI, such that the actual machinery and tools of government are being kind of applied along the lines of the rhetoric of the president.
	How do you see things right now?
	Well, Chris, that's exactly why I think the recent developments are so worrisome, because Mr.
	Trump has removed individuals from the head of the intelligence community, as well as from the FBI and justice.
	And he's trying to put people in who are going to do his bidding.
	So we saw recently with the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grinnell, a hand-picked individual who I think has demonstrated his loyalty to Mr.
	Trump over the years, releasing, declassifying the names of individuals who had unmasked some names in intelligence reports with the implication that that was wrongdoing.
	Well, it wasn't, carrying out our responsibilities correctly.
	But then when I look at the Attorney General, Mr.
	Barr...
	Now, so, of course, there's no diving into the fact that it was 39 people who were witness to or who had requested and received unmasking.
	But I guess that's just the job.
	...carrying out our responsibilities correctly.
	But then when I look at the Attorney General, Mr.
	Barr...
	And how he has repeatedly demonstrated that his interest is being the president's lawyer, as opposed to being the people's lawyer.
	You need to get the updated memo, Brennan.
	That's pretty old hat you're repeating there.
	And I'm very worried that the instruments of governance, the instruments of intelligence and law enforcement and justice...
	I think that's something that should worry all Americans.
	It's one thing to have policy differences, and we can have arguments in public about that.
	But if he's going to try to bring charges against individuals, trumped up charges because of his political interests, and he's going to have individuals who are going to help make that happen.
	That is something that I saw overseas in my career, my national security career, and I never thought I would see that happening here in the United States.
	Clearly, back in the last century, in the 1970s, we had incidents where President Nixon tried to use the FBI and CIA and others for political purposes, and we had quite an uproar at that time, and President Nixon was forced out of office.
	Sad to say that it sounds like we are now back in the same type of environment where an individual in the White House is now using those organizations and using people in senior positions in intelligence and law enforcement for his own purposes.
	Wat je zegt ben jezelf met je kop door de helft.
	That is the best example of projection I've heard from him.
	And says, just like Richard Nixon, clearly this president was using the intelligence apparatus to get at his enemies.
	It's exactly what happened, allegedly, with the whole Obama administration.
	If that isn't a clear case...
	Rewriting the history of Nixon is also somewhat annoying.
	Let's just get Nixon out of the picture, these guys.
	Oh, this guy is the worst.
	I think there's a fall guy, though.
	The CIA should be embarrassed that he was ever part of their operation.
	Yeah, there's one little quick thing, a little quick bite I got here, which may be the fall guy, because someone's got to go.
	I'm just hoping that individuals like Chris Wray, who is a remarkable public servant, will continue to stay strong in the face of this type of abominable abuse of authority.
	So Chris Wray's on the block.
	Is it obamable?
	Obamable.
	Let's listen.
	Did he say Obama-able?
	Wow.
	I'm just hoping that individuals like Chris Wray, who is a remarkable public servant, will continue to stay strong in the face of this type of abominable abuse of authority.
	Oh, man.
	Obama-able.
	That's a great word.
	Obama-able.
	Obama-able.
	But I think Christopher Wray is on the block.
	I think that may have been what you just heard there, that clip.
	I think put him on the block.
	Well, that would have been part of the point.
	Obamabull.com registered.
	Done.
	I don't know why, but I need it.
	And it's available, right?
	Obamabull.com.
	Obamable.
	That's right, everybody.
	I do a podcast.
	You can find it at obamable.com.
	Yay.
	And I think that's some other stuff.
	Well, I got a few things I want to get out of there.
	Yeah, and we have our Round the World.
	I have a Round the World thing.
	Rona Round the World.
	Yeah, you want to hear a few of those?
	Yeah, Rona Round the World.
	Well, let's start with the funniest one, and I also have a sub-clip for it.
	This is COVID New Jersey.
	Ah, always a good time.
	With summer right around the corner, New Jersey announced this week that beaches would be open by Memorial Day weekend, with some restrictions.
	The openings are weeks behind other coastal states like Georgia and Florida, but as one of the state's hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, local officials say they are proceeding cautiously.
	At exactly 10 a.m.
	yesterday, barriers that had been blocking the boardwalk and beach in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, were pushed aside.
	An announcement made it official.
	These beaches are now officially open.
	Once again, these beaches are now officially open.
	It's a sign that things are returning to normal in this quintessential Jersey Shore town, sort of.
	We're looking to see how we do with the social distance, and that's going to be our test today.
	Tony Vaz is the mayor of Seaside Heights.
	After nearly two months of being closed because of COVID-19, visitors can now walk and ride bikes on the boardwalk, provided they heed the rule of six feet between groups of people.
	On the beach, there's no swimming or sunbathing, but the public can walk, fish, and even surf.
	Mayor Vaz says it's just the first phase of Seaside Heights is reopening.
	I'm optimistic that this is a good first step.
	Obviously, I would love to see everything open.
	I would love to see us swimming and so forth, but we have to recognize that we have to take this in steps.
	Seaside Heights is one of more than three dozen communities along the Jersey Shore, grappling with how best to reopen.
	In neighboring Seaside Park, beaches are already open to sunbaters, provided beachgoers keep their distance.
	I was more interested in this Tony Vaz guy.
	He sounds identical to Joe Pesci.
	Yeah, it does a little bit.
	A little bit?
	I actually have a clip from him further on in that presentation.
	And this is the 16 seconds of him talking.
	This guy has a voiceover gig anytime he wants one.
	By the way, he's wearing a mask, so he's kind of muffled.
	But this is Tony Vaz talking a little bit more.
	If we just obey the rules.
	You know you've got to stop at a stoplight.
	We've got to whack him!
	That's a rule.
	So you know if it's social distancing now?
	Social distancing.
	If you know it's another mandate, follow it.
	I'm an optimist.
	It has to get better.
	I don't have the magical number when, but it will get better.
	Yes!
	Nailed it!
	We should find him and ask him to do some stuff for us.
	I was thinking about it, but then again, I'm thinking I'm going to get a call back saying, you think I'm funny?
	I can get a visit.
	Get a visit.
	That's very good.
	I like that.
	But sad, man.
	What has New Jersey become?
	I lived there for 12 years.
	Jersey is sad, sad, sad.
	No, not 12.
	Nine years.
	Back to the rundown.
	That was Jersey.
	Let's go to the COVID-EU update with an emphasis on Greece.
	COVID-EU. Germany and Switzerland was dismantled last night.
	It's part of an agreement by those countries, as well as Austria, to begin opening borders again.
	German Prime Minister Angela Merkel said earlier this week that she would like all emergency border controls in Europe's 26-nation Schengen zone removed by June 15th.
	Also in Germany, the country's premier soccer league, Bundesliga, resumed play today without fans.
	It is the world's first major soccer league to start up following a two-month pause due to the coronavirus pandemic.
	Did they have fake audiences?
	I have not heard.
	I have to check that out.
	So far, no.
	In Greece, more than 500 public beaches reopened today as the country experienced its first heat wave of the year.
	Beachgoers were required to keep their distance as officials stipulated how many people could be on the beach and exactly how far apart umbrellas needed to be.
	Yes, the beaches are back open!
	Woohoo!
	The opening beaches is the first major easing of Greece's coronavirus lockdown.
	To date, it has had just a fraction of the cases of many neighboring countries, including Turkey.
	Starting tomorrow, Greeks will be allowed to attend church, and tourism officials hope to welcome back foreigners in July.
	No.
	Wow.
	So they got nothing going on.
	It's underreported.
	Nobody wants to talk about Greece, why they have less cases.
	Maybe there's something they're taking.
	They may be taking a prophylactic like hydroxychloroquine is a possibility.
	Nah, can't be.
	Could never.
	That doesn't work.
	The shit doesn't work.
	You need remdesivir.
	That's the one that keeps you alive somewhat longer.
	I don't know.
	You need the approved one.
	COVID, Brazil, PBS. If
	I may compliment you, it takes a real professional to hold on to a surprise edit clip until the very end of the show.
	I commend you, sir.
	That was well done.
	Very good.
	I got you off guard.
	Yes, you did.
	COVID China.
	You made me feel good.
	Overseas, in China, officials said they marked one full month with no new COVID deaths.
	But vulnerable populations, like here in Bangladesh, are bracing for a blow.
	In this crowded camp, home to one million Rohingya Muslims, the first coronavirus case was confirmed just today.
	Huh.
	There you have it.
	Yeah.
	I thought our boots on the ground from Wuhan was better.
	Well, anything is better.
	At least we got people on the ground in Wuhan.
	Well, is that the same guy who wrote us the note initially when this whole thing broke open?
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	That's the guy.
	Yeah.
	He's good.
	We have some of the best.
	Let me just check and make sure I didn't miss any of these.
	We've got the nursing home, the Wuhan.
	I want to thank Dr.
	Disorder for sending us our no agenda mask.
	Not the ones we ordered, but there was a cancellation, so we sent.
	The Keeper wants the 1984 mask, which is coming, I hope.
	She wants to proudly wear that, which is a good one.
	I think, yeah.
	These will all be good.
	I do.
	I can play a little more of the Biden.
	I can play the Shields and Brooks on the PBH Research.
	Oh, God.
	Let's get out of here on something happy.
	That's happy.
	Okay.
	What is it?
	Two depresses from the same side of the political agenda, standing in their homes.
	One of them worried sick, the other one too old to care.
	Let's listen to Shields and Brooks.
	And it reveals that Joe Biden is a very transparent person.
	The culture they describe is certainly the culture I knew when I was covering Senator Biden.
	And the person I know him to be, and it raises more skepticism about the claims.
	I would say this, and in addition, there's a Politico report looking into some of Tara Reid's past allegations in other cases, other parts of her life.
	And I think the bottom line is, if you were a person who was saying, should this issue be a problem for me in voting for Joe Biden, I think the arrow has moved into less of a problem.
	We don't know that it didn't happen.
	We can't have that.
	But certainly the degree of skepticism has to be a little higher because of this reporting.
	And Mark, I mean, you're somebody who's covered the city for a long time.
	You've walked the halls of the Senate office buildings.
	What do you come away with here?
	Well, I come away, first of all, with great admiration for both Lisa and Dan.
	I mean, 74 people on the record is remarkable.
	That meant a couple of hundred calls they had to make to get that.
	Okay, now, when I played that clip, because I was going to play a series of clips where PBS maybe played next Thursday, they took their two, Lisa Desjardins and some other guy, and they went and they investigated.
	Lisa's not a guy.
	They spent a fortune investigating the Tara Reade story by talking to old staffers, and they talked – they tried to contact 200 people, and they contacted 75 and got – or got 75 on the record.
	Uh-huh.
	The New York Times and the Washington Post do stories with nobody on the record.
	They don't talk to 200 people.
	They don't talk to anybody.
	And they have just as sources, somebody thinks that somebody heard somebody else said something about something.
	No, they talked to the campaign about it.
	That's what they did.
	And they removed a part of their reporting that talked about the pattern of him fondling and touching people, which was not a problem at all.
	So you end up with...
	Anomaly where PBS, just a TV show, it's not even any good anymore, gets 75 people to talk on their record about a specific thing, and the newspapers who have people that are supposed to be doing this making a lot of phone calls, they get nobody for anything.
	It's unbelievable.
	I just thought it was remarkable.
	Why do they have to do that many people?
	What are they trying to prove?
	And did they talk about any of their research, or is that the series of clips?
	You want to do that now, the series of clips?
	Well, yeah, if we have time.
	I'll do the series of clips.
	There's only three of them, and the longest one is the first one, and we'll play that.
	Two months ago, allegations arose accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault.
	Tara Reid, who in 1993 worked in the office of then-Senator Biden, said that he assaulted her.
	Biden has categorically denied the allegations, which now face examination from the public.
	Our own Dan Bush and Lisa Desjardins did extensive reporting, talking to 74 former Biden staffers to learn more about the vice president, the culture in his offices, and their thoughts on the allegations.
	The two join me now to share what they've learned.
	Hello to both of you, and I'm going to turn to you both, but Lisa, to you to begin.
	Take us through what you did and what you learned in all from talking to all these people.
	Yeah, Judy, we reached out to, tried to reach out to some 200 former Biden staffers.
	Of that, we were able to have in-depth interviews with some 74 of them.
	Now, 62 of these former staffers were women.
	And to a person, Judy, those women told us they had never had any experience that was uncomfortable with the former vice president or had ever heard of any experience that was uncomfortable or worse.
	Many of them said they had spent time with him alone during work hours and that they wanted to say that most of them didn't want to reflect on whether what Tara Reid is saying is true or not, but they did say that it did not reflect their experiences at all Especially in a workplace that Dan and I both heard from them, they felt empowered women.
	That's right, Lisa.
	I would add to that also that a lot of the former staffers we spoke to said that while they never felt uncomfortable, they did confirm what we all know about Joe Biden, which is his history, his habit of reaching out, making physical contact with people he speaks to, touching them.
	We spoke to People who said at the time of this it was known about Biden that he would rub your shoulders, squeeze your shoulders, give people hugs and kisses.
	And again, while the people we spoke to said that they themselves didn't feel uncomfortable, they did acknowledge that former Vice President Biden doesn't seem to have a strong social signal in terms of when that kind of contact is wanted or not.
	That came up last year on the campaign trail and now again here.
	Oh, man.
	Now, they did dig up two interesting little tidbits, which are, I don't know if they're important or not, and they're trying to, they're really going out of their way to protect Biden, so Biden is the candidate, let's face it.
	No kidding, yeah.
	Let's listen to clip two.
	And Lisa, you also uncovered, frankly, new details that reflect on Tara Reade's allegation that she says she was forced out of the office because she complained about being uncomfortable about this sexual incident.
	Tell us exactly what you learned about that and why it matters.
	Well, Tara Reade says that she complained about previous sexual harassment in the office, and that after she complained, she says she was retaliated against in a couple of ways, and that that eventually forced her out of the office.
	We spoke to the man who shared an office with her.
	His name is Ben Savage.
	They worked together on Constituent Mail.
	Ben Savage told us that actually it was a performance problem with Tara Reid that he himself raised two supervisors.
	In some cases he said she was throwing out important records of constituent mail and that the problem was bad enough that he raised it to supervisors.
	He believes that's why she left.
	And here's some of the interview that I had with him over the phone.
	And of all the people who held that position, she's the only one during my time there who couldn't We, of course, reached out to Tara Reid.
	She declined our request for an interview, but her attorney did give us detailed responses to our questions, among them to this exact issue.
	He said that story is flat wrong.
	Here is what Doug Wigdor wrote us in response.
	He wrote, So it's possible that from time to time there was a mistake made, but her performance had nothing to do with her termination.
	Judy, we do know that Reed worked in that office for about nine months.
	Wait a minute.
	She says she was...
	I thought she left.
	She was terminated?
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	Well, then there's a termination letter and there's something there that I haven't heard of.
	Well, somebody's got to have some documentation for this.
	And by the way, what kind of a job are you going through?
	Male?
	This is not a complicated job that you can't keep up.
	Come on.
	What bull crap.
	I worked in the government.
	Did they...
	Now, how was this report presented?
	This is it?
	This is the presentation of their findings?
	Do they have a package?
	No, no.
	There's no package.
	But there's a little bit of a package in this last clip where this guy goes on to...
	Which I have to explain after the presentation.
	This is the part three.
	And Dan, you also learned new information from Reed's attorney about the location that Tara Reed says is where Joe Biden assaulted her.
	So tell us about that.
	That's right, Judy.
	Reid's attorney provided us with new information about this assault, this alleged assault, saying that Reid claims that it took place somewhere between the Russell Building, where Biden had an office at the time, and the U.S. Capitol Building.
	We want to show you what these spaces look like.
	So this is the hallway where Biden's office was.
	It's essentially unchanged to now to get to the Capitol.
	You go down a flight of stairs and then take a tunnel where there's a subway that takes lawmakers to the Capitol building.
	Now, anybody who has been to this part of the Capitol knows that there are a lot of people moving through these spaces, especially when Congress is in session.
	Lawmakers, their aides, reporters, there's a police presence as well.
	And what a lot of these former Biden staffers told us is, look, these are public places.
	If this allegation is true, if it took place, it would have been extremely brazen, Judy, because the likelihood that it would have been seen by someone was very high.
	Man, if if.
	Well, I've got to give you an explanation of what they showed.
	First, they showed the big, long hallway.
	There was nobody there.
	Then he showed a spot where there's that little subway system, and there's a crowd there.
	And then he showed another shot.
	There was zero people.
	He's going on and on about all the people there.
	There were people in these photos.
	He's showing the empty photos, empty corridors.
	I don't know what happened.
	We will not know.
	We'll never know.
	Believe all women, whatever.
	The fact of the matter is, look, here's the deal.
	Joe Biden is not qualified to run for anything.
	It's a sham.
	I don't know what's going on.
	I don't know why they're doing this.
	It makes no sense.
	And I would hope that we remember the people who were speaking so glowingly and lovingly about Joe Biden, about his experience and what a great president he'll make in these days specifically, because I'd like to talk to those people after whatever happens because I'd like to talk to those people after whatever happens happens, because it'll become apparent that this was a scam, whether he gets in office or not.
	It's going to be apparent.
	Yeah, I don't get it, personally.
	I don't know what's the point of it.
	Unless it's just to put somebody in the vice president's slot that you know you can't get elected.
	Amy Klobuchar would be a good example.
	No one's voting for her.
	She did poorly in all the primaries.
	But you can get her in as president, and she'd be a good bureaucrat, and as long as she's a globalist, it's good to go.
	I mean, they're trying to get a globalist back in the office and get back on track here of turning the country over, or national sovereignty should be turned over to a one-world government.
	That's obviously what's going on.
	And there are people that advocate for that, and that's the corona thing is all about that.
	Well, I think Joe Biden is right.
	I think he's very smart.
	He stays in his basement.
	I think it's very intelligent of his campaign.
	They do not let any outsiders in from Comcast or any smart people who are going to come in and fix their sound because the likelihood of him being killed is high right now.
	Certainly in the corona period, we'd have a great excuse.
	I fear for Joe's life at this point.
	There's no way anyone who was running any show at the Democratic National Party, the Democratic Party, thinks that this guy is actually going to be something worth anything as a president.
	I'm just totally in disagreement with you.
	You're speaking from a logical perspective, as if the Democrats are logical.
	I'm waiting for you.
	I just think they're illogical.
	I think they're sincere.
	I think they sincerely think this guy's going to be a great president.
	They're keeping most of the gaffes out of the public eye so the public doesn't notice and so he can get in.
	They believe their own publicity, so when they see a Washington Post poll that says that Biden's going to beat Trump by 10 points, I think they believe it.
	I don't think they think that is bullcrap.
	I think, well, this guy's a winner.
	This guy can beat Trump.
	That's all we want.
	This guy can beat Trump.
	Yeah, maybe he won't be the best guy, but he can beat Trump and he's a good guy.
	He's one of ours.
	He's one of our guys and he's next on the list and he's the guy that's up next, up to bat.
	No matter what strategy you look at, it's apparent that people are being chosen around him or selected or people are getting ready in case he either dies in office and, okay, we disagree on this, but the way this is being run, and if you're telling me that the people who run the DNC, I'm not talking about Democrats, I'm talking about the prostitutes on television, they're just doing what they're told to do, and I'm sure they believe.
	But this, to me, sounds like a setup for someone who was not nominated, someone who was not running, someone who was going to have to come in and save the day when something bad happens to Joe.
	That is a scenario that has to be looked at.
	Well, that brings Hillary back into the mix.
	Thank you very much.
	That's all I can think of.
	And if not that, then, yeah, then people are just delusional because this man is not appropriate for any kind of public office.
	Delusional is the right word.
	Any kind of public office.
	Well, Hillary, again, is the one that could be targeting the whole thing.
	She could be behind everything.
	I mean, their machine still exists, and there's a lot of support for it.
	And I think the general public in the United States will get extremely irked at this point if Hillary swoops in.
	Because I think they're going to see the whole thing was a setup.
	What's the point?
	What's wrong with the Democrats?
	They can't find anybody?
	How about this for a scenario?
	Wait a minute.
	She's flying over.
	Hold on.
	You've got to be careful when she...
	Those low flybys she does are a little dangerous.
	Feel the flapping of her wings.
	She's aiming for Trump's hair.
	Looks like a bird's nest.
	So how about this?
	How about we choose an African-American woman for vice president, Joe Croaks, then we get Hillary as president, black Hillary as vice president.
	How does Hillary get in?
	If Joe croaks, is he going to croak before or after his nomination?
	No, before the nomination, of course.
	Yeah, of course before the nomination.
	But he's going to have to croak within the next two months.
	And the clock is ticking.
	The Biden croak countdown clock has started.
	T-minus two months.
	I hope not.
	Well, I hope not, too.
	I'd rather see Joe in it.
	Much more entertaining.
	Much more entertaining.
	That is it for our deconstruction for today.
	We have end of show mixes coming up from...
	Jesse Coy Nelson.
	We've got us Aaron Yoho, who supported the show earlier today.
	And after this, on noagendastream.com, MoFax, episode 37, A Shell Game.
	We'll hear more about that Biden-VP scenario.
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	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	And such...
	To groups of people standing outside an ice cream parlor.
	Or maybe they're playing pick-up basketball or sharing a sidewalk on a nice day.
	Weeks ago, these were everyday activities.
	But the coronavirus has changed everything.
	If I see something that I don't think is right, especially now, I'm gonna challenge it.
	Social distancing complaints are drawing shame on social media and calls to the police.
	Corona.
	Corona.
	Coronavirus.
	Coronavirus is like this?
	I don't know.
	Let's listen to the scientists.
	Vaccine.
	Vaccine.
	Vaccine or no vaccine?
	With the mask on!
	It's less dangerous Social distance It's contagious Don't be stupid Or outrageous Mass while driving Entertain us Building gates Crouchy Fauci Quarantine Ouchieouchie Don't be stupid We'll be right back.
	We're watching you.
	He built his models.
	He built his models on faulty code.
	He built his models.
	He built his models on faulty code.
	The Neil Ferguson Imperial College Model.
	Shacked up with his mistress when he was supposed to be sheltered in place.
	Yes, that's the one.
	And you recall that he built these models not on rock and roll, but on 13-year-old undocumented code.
	My shrunken up in the ground, thanks to the legend of the show, don't you remember?
	He built his models, he built his models on 40-girls.
	He built his models.
	He built his models on 40.
	Give me a phone.
	Minority got on by my phone.
	Minority got on by my phone.
	Keep on bombing presidents, you know.
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	He gave us a phone.
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	You got low income, you disability.
	Minority got Obama phone.
	He gave us a phone.
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	Out.
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